The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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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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’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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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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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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