[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
KEITH RICHARDSI never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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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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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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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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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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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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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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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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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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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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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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