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.
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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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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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 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’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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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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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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