My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
KEITH RICHARDSEverybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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.
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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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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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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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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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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