I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
KEITH RICHARDSI’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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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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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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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