top of page
"I only get ill when I give up drugs."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Drugs quotes

"I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs."

"Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs."

"We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs."

"I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS."
Explore more quotes by Keith Richards

"To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance."

"Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen."

"I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage."

"When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it."

"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."
bottom of page