Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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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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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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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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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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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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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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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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