I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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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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.
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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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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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