I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
KEITH RICHARDSI occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
More Keith Richards Quotes
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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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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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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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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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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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 achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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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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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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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