My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
KEITH RICHARDSYou can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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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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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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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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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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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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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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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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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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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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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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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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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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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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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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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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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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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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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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