[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
KEITH RICHARDSSome people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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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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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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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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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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What is life but playing with time?
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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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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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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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The public library is the great equaliser.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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