If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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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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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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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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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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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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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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I don’t regret nothing.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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