I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
KEITH RICHARDSI mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
KEITH RICHARDSI have no idea what the audience makes of me.
KEITH RICHARDSBut I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
KEITH RICHARDSSome things get better with age. Like me.
KEITH RICHARDSLet me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDSGuitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
KEITH RICHARDSI read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
KEITH RICHARDSI 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 RICHARDSEverybody 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 RICHARDSI haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
KEITH RICHARDSPoison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
KEITH RICHARDSMy father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
KEITH RICHARDSI achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
KEITH RICHARDSTo me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
KEITH RICHARDS