{"author":"Keith Richards","author_id":"Keith+Richards","total_quotes":20,"quotes":[{"text":"The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.","author":"Keith Richards","tags":["band","disagree","things "],"id":5266,"author_id":"Keith+Richards"},{"text":"I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.","author":"Keith Richards","tags":["self-awareness"],"id":18065,"author_id":"Keith+Richards"},{"text":"When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.","author":"Keith Richards","tags":["awesome","libraries","library"],"id":35923,"author_id":"Keith+Richards"},{"text":"I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be anywhere.","author":"Keith Richards","tags":["life-philosophy"],"id":50096,"author_id":"Keith+Richards"},{"text":"When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser.","author":"Keith Richards","tags":["books","childhood","church","education","equality","growing-up","institutions","library","public-library","reading"],"id":51379,"author_id":"Keith+Richards"},{"text":"Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.","author":"Keith Richards","tags":["bones","emotions","keith-richards","language","music","the-rolling-stones"],"id":70405,"author_id":"Keith+Richards"},{"text":"And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.","author":"Keith Richards","tags":["great","stones","between "],"id":77701,"author_id":"Keith+Richards"},{"text":"Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.","author":"Keith Richards","tags":["rock and roll","rock","roll "],"id":127709,"author_id":"Keith+Richards"},{"text":"To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.","author":"Keith Richards","tags":["important","important thing "],"id":156354,"author_id":"Keith+Richards"},{"text":"I can’t imagine what other people think cold turkey is like. It is fucking awful. On the scale of things, it’s better than having your leg blown off in the trenches. It’s better than starving to death. But you don’t want to go there. The whole body just sort of turns itself inside out and rejects itself for three days. You know in three days it’s going to calm down. It’s going to be the longest three days you’ve spent in your life, and you wonder why you’re doing this to yourself when you could be living a perfectly normal fucking rich rock star life. And there you are puking and climbing walls. Why do you do that to yourself? I don’t know. I still don’t know. Your skin crawling, your guts churning, you can’t stop your limbs from jerking and moving about, and you’re throwing up and shitting at the same time, and shit’s coming out your nose and your eyes, and the first time that happens for real, that’s when a reasonable man says, “I’m hooked.” But even that doesn’t stop a reasonable man from going back on it.","author":"Keith Richards","tags":["addiction","cold-turkey","heroin"],"id":176726,"author_id":"Keith+Richards"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}