When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
KEITH RICHARDSI’m an unpure purist, something like that.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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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.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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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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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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