I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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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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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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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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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
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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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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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