I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
KEITH RICHARDSWomen are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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What is life but playing with time?
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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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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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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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One 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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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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