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.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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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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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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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 mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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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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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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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 looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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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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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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