I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDSBut 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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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Yes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
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The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
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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 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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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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