Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
KEITH RICHARDSI 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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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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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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 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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The public library is the great equaliser.
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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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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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