Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDSMusic is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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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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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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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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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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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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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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But 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?
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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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