Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
KEITH RICHARDSThe rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
More Keith Richards Quotes
-
-
If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
KEITH RICHARDS -
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.
KEITH RICHARDS -
To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
KEITH RICHARDS -
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
KEITH RICHARDS -
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.
KEITH RICHARDS -
Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
KEITH RICHARDS -
I’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
KEITH RICHARDS -
If you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
KEITH RICHARDS -
I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
KEITH RICHARDS -
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.
KEITH RICHARDS -
I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDS -
Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
KEITH RICHARDS -
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.
KEITH RICHARDS -
I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
KEITH RICHARDS -
Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDS






