If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
KEITH RICHARDSI mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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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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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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 haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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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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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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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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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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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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