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If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

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Keith Richards
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 18
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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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've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you you just grow into each other
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The only new technology that interests me is when it sort of throws me back soundwise. And I can think, Wow, that means I can go onstage and sound like Scotty Moore now and again!
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I don't regret nuthin.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda. I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just yet. He's the guy I'm gonna see, isn't it? I'm not going to the Other Place, let's face it.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands.
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[joking about the length of the Rolling Stones' career] 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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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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