I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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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Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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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.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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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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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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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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