Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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.
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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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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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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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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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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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