I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
KEITH RICHARDSI don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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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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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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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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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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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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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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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