And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to 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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I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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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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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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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
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