My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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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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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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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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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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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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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 haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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’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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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