You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
KEITH RICHARDSLet me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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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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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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The public library is the great equaliser.
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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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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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