Miranda Beall > Miranda's Quotes

“Despite being the "Most Likely" on a list of "The Rock Stars Most Likely to Croak ...," Keith has outlasted ex-bandmates, ex-drug buddies and, so he claims, several of his own doctors. Yet as the man himself observes, "Every day of my life is show business." Start him up ...”
― Mark Blake, Stone Me: The Wit and Wisdom of Keith Richards

“Classic of '43. Don't knock it. A Vintage year.”
― Keith Richards

“One of the Keith Commandments is that nothing is secret.”
― Jessica Pallington West

“Dux femina facit.”
― Virgil

“salve atque vale”
― Catullus, Catullus

“Mirabile dictu!”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”
― Keith Richards, Keith Richards: In His Own Words

“From the moment I could talk, I was ordered to listen.”
― Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)

“Keith Richards on change—"It's gotta go up and down. Otherwise, you won't know the difference. It would be just a bland, straight line, like lookin' at a heart machine. And when that straight line happens, baby, you're dead.”
― Jessica Pallington West, What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations from a Rock and Roll Survivor

“mirabile dictu!”
― Miranda Beall

“You know, life's a funny thing. Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.”
― Keith Richards

“You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.”
― Keith Richards

“The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing...”
― Keith Richards

“We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.”
― Keith Richards, Life

“I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.”
― Keith Richards

“I don't regret nuthin... ”
― Keith Richards

“Memory is fiction,”
― Keith Richards, Life

“They was strong words but they was said and I let them stay said.”
― Mark Twain

“Anytime I button my coat, I'm packed.”
― George 'Gabby' Hayes

“All I can do is be me. Whoever that is.”
― Bob Dylan

“From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.”
― Cat Stevens

“Go to Church on Sunday. Forget it all on Monday.”
― Loggins and Messina