[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
KEITH RICHARDSWhat’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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What is life but playing with time?
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
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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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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
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I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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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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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
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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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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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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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