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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.

Keith Richards

Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDS

Drugs Police Problem
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blue Learning Monastery Realize Sing Thinking
I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
KEITH RICHARDS

Country Myself Place Room
I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
KEITH RICHARDS

Doctor Goodness Myself Trust
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
KEITH RICHARDS

Heroes Imitation Myself Start
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
KEITH RICHARDS

Canvas Musician Silence Yourself
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
KEITH RICHARDS

Age Growth Ourselves Youth
I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
KEITH RICHARDS

Bad Blue Manners Myself Privacy
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
KEITH RICHARDS

Experience Myself Standard
I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
KEITH RICHARDS

Drugs Myself Police Problem
Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blame Known Myself Side
If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
KEITH RICHARDS

Guitar Music Point Popular Yourself
Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
KEITH RICHARDS

Myself Play Retirement Spell Word
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Affect Belong Growth Library Place Yourself
I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
KEITH RICHARDS

Life Myself Writing
You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
KEITH RICHARDS

Accuse Confession Yourself

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