I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
KEITH RICHARDS[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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.
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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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If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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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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To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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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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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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You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
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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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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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