I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
KEITH RICHARDS[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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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When I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
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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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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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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’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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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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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.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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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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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
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