Keith Richards Quotes
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money...
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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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I only get ill when I give up drugs...
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I wouldn't warm to Chuck Berry even if I was cremated next to him.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.
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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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And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
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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.
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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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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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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'
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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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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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Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience
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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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You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.
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This morning on Dartford station a guy I knew at primary school came up to me. He's got every record Chuck Berry made. He is called Mick Jagger.