I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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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My life is full of broken halos.
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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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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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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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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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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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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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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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