I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDS
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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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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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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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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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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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