A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
KEITH RICHARDSA painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
KEITH RICHARDSMusic is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
KEITH RICHARDSI haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
KEITH RICHARDSOne minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab
KEITH RICHARDSIf you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
KEITH RICHARDSYou don’t find a style. A style finds you.
KEITH RICHARDSIt might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
KEITH RICHARDSGuitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
KEITH RICHARDSSome people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
KEITH RICHARDSYou know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
KEITH RICHARDSThe Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
KEITH RICHARDSTrue friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
KEITH RICHARDSWhat Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’
KEITH RICHARDSSome things get better with age. Like me.
KEITH RICHARDS