I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
KEITH RICHARDSRock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
More Keith Richards Quotes
-
-
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
KEITH RICHARDS -
There’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
KEITH RICHARDS -
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
KEITH RICHARDS -
Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
KEITH RICHARDS -
The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
KEITH RICHARDS -
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
KEITH RICHARDS -
What is life but playing with time?
KEITH RICHARDS -
One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
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 don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
KEITH RICHARDS -
I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
KEITH RICHARDS -
George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
KEITH RICHARDS -
You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
KEITH RICHARDS -
Everybody’s got a different way of telling a story – and has different stories to tell.
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






