True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
KEITH RICHARDSTrue friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
KEITH RICHARDSThe rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
KEITH RICHARDSSome things get better with age. Like me.
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 RICHARDSBut I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
KEITH RICHARDSYes, I’ve been trepanned. That’s quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
KEITH RICHARDSFame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
KEITH RICHARDSI have no idea what the audience makes of me.
KEITH RICHARDSI’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
KEITH RICHARDSIt might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
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 looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
KEITH RICHARDS