I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDSYou have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
More Keith Richards Quotes
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The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
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Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
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What is life but playing with time?
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I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
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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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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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This is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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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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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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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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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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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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It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
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