"I thought it was ludicrous to take one of those gongs from the establishment... it's not what the Stones is about, is it? I don't want to step out on stage with someone wearing a fucking coronet and sporting the old ermine. I told Mick, 'It's a fucking paltry honour.'"
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Keith Richards, 2003, on Jagger receiving knighthood, reported in In quotes: Keith Richards, BBC (April 4, 2007).
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