What is life but playing with time?
KEITH RICHARDSWhat is life but playing with time?
KEITH RICHARDSOne of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.
KEITH RICHARDSSome things get better with age. Like me.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
KEITH RICHARDSPoison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
KEITH RICHARDSThe idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
KEITH RICHARDSEverybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
KEITH RICHARDSI’m free of hypochondria– although I’ve got everything else.
KEITH RICHARDSI’m not getting old I’m evolving.
KEITH RICHARDSMy life is full of broken halos.
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 RICHARDSGeorge Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
KEITH RICHARDSEverybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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 RICHARDSGuitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
KEITH RICHARDS