To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
KEITH RICHARDSTo me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
KEITH RICHARDSThe only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
KEITH RICHARDSGuitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
KEITH RICHARDSI’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.
KEITH RICHARDSFame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
KEITH RICHARDSThe public library is the great equaliser.
KEITH RICHARDSWhen 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 RICHARDSTo 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.
KEITH RICHARDSIt might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
KEITH RICHARDSI am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
KEITH RICHARDSPreaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
KEITH RICHARDSEveryone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
KEITH RICHARDSRock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
KEITH RICHARDSWhy would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
KEITH RICHARDSI 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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