Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
KEITH RICHARDSRetire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
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 RICHARDSI have no idea what the audience makes of me.
KEITH RICHARDSThere’s a demon in me, and he’s still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
KEITH RICHARDSMusic works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s an addiction and addiction is something I should know something about.
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 RICHARDSTrue friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
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 achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
KEITH RICHARDSLove has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.
KEITH RICHARDSI haven’t stopped smoking; anything.
KEITH RICHARDSNobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
KEITH RICHARDSI never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
KEITH RICHARDS