You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
KEITH RICHARDSThe Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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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 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 only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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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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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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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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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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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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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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