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.
KEITH RICHARDSYou can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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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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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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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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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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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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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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