Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
KEITH RICHARDSSome things get better with age. Like me.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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’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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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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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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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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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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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