To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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What is life but playing with time?
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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