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.
KEITH RICHARDSI don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
More Keith Richards Quotes
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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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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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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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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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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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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 was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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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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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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