Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
KEITH RICHARDSI have no idea what the audience makes of me.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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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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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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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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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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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 achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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