You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
KEITH RICHARDSYou know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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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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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 was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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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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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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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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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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 haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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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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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