Keith Richards Quotes

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• I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One…
• To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.
• You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up
• True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other
• My life is full of broken halos.
• Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
• You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.
• I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
• A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
• I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
• What is life but playing with time?
• Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
• We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
• To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
• There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the…
• My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
• One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab
• Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.
• Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn't die of an overdose, he died of fame.
• I was Number 1 on the Who's Likely to Die list for 10 years...I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.

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