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.
KEITH RICHARDSI looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
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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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Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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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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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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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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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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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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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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