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.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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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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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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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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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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The public library is the great equaliser.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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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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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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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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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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