If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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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The public library is the great equaliser.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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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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Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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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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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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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 don’t regret nothing.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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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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