Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDSTo 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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What is life but playing with time?
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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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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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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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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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