My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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 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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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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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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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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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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