Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
KEITH RICHARDSThere’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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What is life but playing with time?
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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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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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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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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 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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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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