Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
KEITH RICHARDSGeorge Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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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 stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
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If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
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You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
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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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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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Songwriting’s a weird game.
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What’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.
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I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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I am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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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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If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.
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