I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
KEITH RICHARDSI don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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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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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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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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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