The public library is the great equaliser.
KEITH RICHARDSEverybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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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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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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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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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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