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.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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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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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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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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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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