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.
KEITH RICHARDSI personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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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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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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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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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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I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
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