Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
KEITH RICHARDSSome people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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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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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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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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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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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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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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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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