To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
KEITH RICHARDSMy father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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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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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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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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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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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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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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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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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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