[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
KEITH RICHARDSYou can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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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 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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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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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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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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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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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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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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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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