Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
KEITH RICHARDSWhatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
KEITH RICHARDSWhen I listen to what I did under the influence – 10 years of work – I don’t think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn’t have that much to do with it.
KEITH RICHARDSI only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDSRock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
KEITH RICHARDSYou know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
KEITH RICHARDSGeorge Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
KEITH RICHARDSI like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
KEITH RICHARDSIf you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
KEITH RICHARDSFame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
KEITH RICHARDSI was number 1 on the who’s likely to die list for 10 years. I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
KEITH RICHARDSI have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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 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 get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
KEITH RICHARDSThe rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you’re cool, you don’t know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain’t.
KEITH RICHARDS