This 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 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 RICHARDSA painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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 RICHARDSTrue friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
KEITH RICHARDSAnything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
KEITH RICHARDSWhat’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
KEITH RICHARDSI’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
KEITH RICHARDSI look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
KEITH RICHARDSRetire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
KEITH RICHARDSYou have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
KEITH RICHARDSI was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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 RICHARDSTo make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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 RICHARDSWhy would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
KEITH RICHARDS