Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
KEITH RICHARDSI 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.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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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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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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