If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool. Keith Richards More Quotes by Keith Richards More Quotes From Keith Richards Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll. Keith Richards rock-n-roll rock-and-roll rocks If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't. Keith Richards ifs knows 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. Keith Richards special games believe The public library is the great equaliser. Keith Richards public-library library I'm an unpure purist, something like that. Keith Richards Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you. Keith Richards mysterious way ideas Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole Keith Richards holes guitar easy To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you. Keith Richards leap life-is animal Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either. Keith Richards dies young want I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large. Keith Richards bullying school moving We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain. Keith Richards holding-on youth age The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start. Keith Richards electric guitar helping I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral. Keith Richards doctors funeral mean A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence. Keith Richards musician silence paper We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right. Keith Richards chemicals matter life-is The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing. Keith Richards rocks easy 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. Keith Richards imagine If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know? Keith Richards thanksgiving thank-you teacher I haven't stopped smoking...anything Keith Richards havens smoking There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days. Keith Richards dope these-days demon
