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.
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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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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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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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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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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