What Would Keith Richards Do? Quotes

“HOBBY: Guitar. Owns approximately three thousand.”
― Jessica Pallington West, What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations from a Rock and Roll Survivor

“Some people have said it all by the time they’re twenty-two or twenty-five, but I don’t get that feeling with Hendrix or Joplin. I don’t think they were finished.”
― Jessica Pallington West, What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations from a Rock and Roll Survivor

“Cold turkey is not so bad after you’ve done it ten or twelve times.”
― Jessica Pallington West, What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations from a Rock and Roll Survivor

“I think you probably get more nostalgic the older you get. But not to the point where I can say, ‘I really wanna drive up and see the old school where I was expelled from.”
― Jessica Pallington West, What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations from a Rock and Roll Survivor

“younger people think older people know everything, but older people know they don’t know shit from shit anyway.”
― Jessica Pallington West, What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations from a Rock and Roll Survivor

“John Lee Hooker: He’s seventy-eight, and he’s got fifteen girlfriends. We should all be so lucky!”
― Jessica Pallington West, What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations from a Rock and Roll Survivor

“I’m an unpure purist.”
― Jessica Pallington West, What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations from a Rock and Roll Survivor

“The eye is attracted by beautiful objects, by gold and silver and all such things.”—Saint Augustine Keith: “The eyes are the whores of the senses.”
― Jessica Pallington West, What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations from a Rock and Roll Survivor

“Keith Richards on change—"It's gotta go up and down. Otherwise, you won't know the difference. It would be just a bland, straight line, like lookin' at a heart machine. And when that straight line happens, baby, you're dead.”
― Jessica Pallington West, What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations from a Rock and Roll Survivor

“Prince is like the Monkees. A Pee-wee Herman trip. He’s appealing to the same audience.”
― Jessica Pallington West, What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations from a Rock and Roll Survivor

“The first thing you need to do with a hotel room is to stop it looking like a hotel room. It’s a ministage, right? My big luxury is carrying a big stereo—about three cases full of sound. I couldn’t live without that cushion of sound.”
― Jessica Pallington West, What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations from a Rock and Roll Survivor

“Imagine if Mozart and Beethoven had a fucking Walkman! You wouldn’t have had twenty-six overtures, you’d have fifty-bleeding-nine. Those guys would be green with envy. They would burn their wigs.”
― Jessica Pallington West, What Would Keith Richards Do?: Daily Affirmations from a Rock and Roll Survivor