If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
KEITH RICHARDSWhen 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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 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 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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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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