I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
KEITH RICHARDSIt might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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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I 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.
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If 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.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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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’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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