I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
KEITH RICHARDSEverybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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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 look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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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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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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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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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’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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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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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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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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