The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
KEITH RICHARDSThe Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
KEITH RICHARDSYou don’t find a style. A style finds you.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
KEITH RICHARDSI’m not getting old I’m evolving.
KEITH RICHARDSI’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.
KEITH RICHARDSYou can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
KEITH RICHARDSWhen 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.
KEITH RICHARDSWhat’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
KEITH RICHARDSI am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
KEITH RICHARDSThe rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
KEITH RICHARDSI don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
KEITH RICHARDSI only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDSRetire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
KEITH RICHARDSNo broken hearts, no broken necks.
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 RICHARDSI never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
KEITH RICHARDS