My life is full of broken halos.
KEITH RICHARDSAnything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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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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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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What is life but playing with time?
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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