You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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 RICHARDSTrue friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
KEITH RICHARDSI look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.
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 RICHARDSIt’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
KEITH RICHARDSFame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
KEITH RICHARDSI have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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 RICHARDSYou have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
KEITH RICHARDSI never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
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 RICHARDSLove has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
KEITH RICHARDSPoison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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 RICHARDSLet me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
KEITH RICHARDS