Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
KEITH RICHARDSLet me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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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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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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