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 RICHARDSWe all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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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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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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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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My life is full of broken halos.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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