Songwriting’s a weird game.
KEITH RICHARDSSongwriting’s a weird game.
KEITH RICHARDSWhat is life but playing with time?
KEITH RICHARDSMusic is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
KEITH RICHARDSThe Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
KEITH RICHARDSI’m an unpure purist, something like that.
KEITH RICHARDSI am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
KEITH RICHARDSYou can’t accuse me of anything I haven’t already confessed to.
KEITH RICHARDSIt’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
KEITH RICHARDSIf you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
KEITH RICHARDSI don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
KEITH RICHARDSTo me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
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 RICHARDSI mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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 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 RICHARDSIt’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
KEITH RICHARDS