If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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 personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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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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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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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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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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