I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
KEITH RICHARDSI’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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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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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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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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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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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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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