The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
KEITH RICHARDSI occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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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.
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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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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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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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