Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
KEITH RICHARDSFame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.
More Keith Richards Quotes
-
-
I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. ‘Here, Dad’ – or more likely, ‘Dad, have you got any?’
KEITH RICHARDS -
It’s a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
KEITH RICHARDS -
You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
KEITH RICHARDS -
No broken hearts, no broken necks.
KEITH RICHARDS -
To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
KEITH RICHARDS -
The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
KEITH RICHARDS -
I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
KEITH RICHARDS -
Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
KEITH RICHARDS -
I 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 RICHARDS -
Some things get better with age. Like me.
KEITH RICHARDS -
I 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 RICHARDS -
Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
KEITH RICHARDS -
True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them – they found you ; you just grow into each other
KEITH RICHARDS -
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
KEITH RICHARDS -
I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
KEITH RICHARDS