Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
KEITH RICHARDSI haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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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 looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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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’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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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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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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