When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
KEITH RICHARDSIt might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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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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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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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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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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.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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