There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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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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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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 never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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