I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
KEITH RICHARDSFame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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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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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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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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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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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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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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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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