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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.

Keith Richards

Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
KEITH RICHARDS

Beautiful Complication Myself Woman
One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
KEITH RICHARDS

Appreciation Myself Stand
I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
KEITH RICHARDS

Boredom Guitar Myself
I don’t regret nothing.
KEITH RICHARDS

Myself One Liner Regret
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 RICHARDS

History Ideas Myself Retirement
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
KEITH RICHARDS

Experience Myself Standard
No broken hearts, no broken necks.
KEITH RICHARDS

Break Heart Broken Neck
Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
KEITH RICHARDS

Growth Reach Thinking True Yourself
I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDS

Drugs Give Up Myself Police Problem
The public library is the great equaliser.
KEITH RICHARDS

Greatness Library One Liner Public
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.
KEITH RICHARDS

Ideas Job Myself Nurture Understand Word
Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDS

Drugs Police Problem
I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
KEITH RICHARDS

Alcohol Myself Wasted Time
I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
KEITH RICHARDS

Children Father Occasion Yourself
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
KEITH RICHARDS

Music Neck Rock Role
It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
KEITH RICHARDS

Addiction Known Myself
I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
KEITH RICHARDS

Bad Blue Manners Myself Privacy
Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
KEITH RICHARDS

Death Fame Kill Talent
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
KEITH RICHARDS

Disagreement Music Myself
But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
KEITH RICHARDS

Comfortable Feeling Myself Time
I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
KEITH RICHARDS

Day Feeling Light Time
I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
KEITH RICHARDS

Freedom Myself Sick
Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
KEITH RICHARDS

Food Love Song Yourself
I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
KEITH RICHARDS

Blood Fascination Myself People Reading
I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
KEITH RICHARDS

Life Myself Writing
I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
KEITH RICHARDS

Evolution Myself Old
Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
KEITH RICHARDS

God Money Preach Tax

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