I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDSWhy would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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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 public library is the great equaliser.
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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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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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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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