To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
KEITH RICHARDSWhen you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.
More Keith Richards Quotes
-
-
You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
KEITH RICHARDS -
I 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 -
Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
KEITH RICHARDS -
Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
KEITH RICHARDS -
I’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
KEITH RICHARDS -
I 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 RICHARDS -
You can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
KEITH RICHARDS -
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
KEITH RICHARDS -
What 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 RICHARDS -
I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
KEITH RICHARDS -
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
KEITH RICHARDS -
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
KEITH RICHARDS -
I don’t wave a flag for anything. I’m a musician.
KEITH RICHARDS -
But 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 RICHARDS -
You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
KEITH RICHARDS






