When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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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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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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