When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
KEITH RICHARDSEveryone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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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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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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