What is life but playing with time?
KEITH RICHARDSWhat is life but playing with time?
KEITH RICHARDSLove has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
KEITH RICHARDSYou see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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 RICHARDSThis is the rock ‘n’ roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
KEITH RICHARDSSome people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.
KEITH RICHARDSI am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
KEITH RICHARDSNobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
KEITH RICHARDS[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
KEITH RICHARDSI mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
KEITH RICHARDSLet me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDSI looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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 RICHARDS