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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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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 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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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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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 am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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