It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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 RICHARDSI’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
KEITH RICHARDSSongwriting’s a weird game.
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 RICHARDSI never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
KEITH RICHARDSI read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
KEITH RICHARDSI’ve never turned blue in someone else’s bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep.
KEITH RICHARDSWe all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
KEITH RICHARDSThe Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
KEITH RICHARDSFame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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 RICHARDSGuitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.
KEITH RICHARDSI have no idea what the audience makes of me.
KEITH RICHARDSI’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
KEITH RICHARDS