I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
KEITH RICHARDSPoison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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What is life but playing with time?
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of 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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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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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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’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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