I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
KEITH RICHARDSWe age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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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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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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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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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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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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