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.
KEITH RICHARDSEverybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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 don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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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 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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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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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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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 was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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