I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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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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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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