Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
KEITH RICHARDSOne minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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My life is full of broken halos.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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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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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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