[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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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What is life but playing with time?
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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 haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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.
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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.
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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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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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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