To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
KEITH RICHARDSThis 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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 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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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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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’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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