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 RICHARDSIf 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 RICHARDSI achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
KEITH RICHARDSWomen are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
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 have no idea what the audience makes of me.
KEITH RICHARDSRock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
KEITH RICHARDSThe public library is the great equaliser.
KEITH RICHARDSEveryone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
KEITH RICHARDSTo me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
KEITH RICHARDSI never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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 RICHARDSNobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
KEITH RICHARDSAnything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
KEITH RICHARDSYou get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
KEITH RICHARDSTo a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
KEITH RICHARDSPoison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
KEITH RICHARDS