I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
KEITH RICHARDSI 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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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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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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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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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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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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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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