Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
KEITH RICHARDSMusic is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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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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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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I 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.
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Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
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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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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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