I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
KEITH RICHARDSWe age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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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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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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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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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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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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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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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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