I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
KEITH RICHARDSPoison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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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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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’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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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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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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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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