Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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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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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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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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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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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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