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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You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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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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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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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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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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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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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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A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
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It’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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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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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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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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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
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Some things get better with age. Like me.
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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I was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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