[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
KEITH RICHARDSBut 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?
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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 have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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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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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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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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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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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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