I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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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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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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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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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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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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What is life but playing with time?
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My life is full of broken halos.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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