Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
KEITH RICHARDSTo me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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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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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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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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