I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDSOne of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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 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 know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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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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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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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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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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