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.
KEITH RICHARDSYes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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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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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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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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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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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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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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