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.
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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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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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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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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To 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.
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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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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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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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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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