I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
KEITH RICHARDSI’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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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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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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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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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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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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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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.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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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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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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