Keith Richards Quotes
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I'm not getting old I'm evolving.
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To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs...
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I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.
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One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain't; you've got to be a Jimi to do that, you've got to be one of the special cats.
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It made me sick - my name's Keith Richards. It hardly makes it against Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters, does it? On my first guitar I had Boy Blue written - just pathetic. But that was as good as I got at the time.
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We do what we want to do. We write songs. We try not to repeat ourselves too much. We have our own sound and our own way of doing things. Up until now it has always been enjoyable. None of the members have ever got to the point where they don't want to be involved in it ... It's not entirely possible for me to stand back and look at the Rolling Stones because being a part of it you can't. I wish that I could just sit in the audience for one night and see the show. Everyone in the band has said that at some point. But then you wouldn't be seeing the whole band. And that's the problem with that.
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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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Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know?
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Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda. I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just yet. He's the guy I'm gonna see, isn't it? I'm not going to the Other Place, let's face it.
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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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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing - the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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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 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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You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.
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You don't find a style. A style finds you...
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There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs... I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem.