To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
KEITH RICHARDSI only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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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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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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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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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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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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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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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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