Keith Richards Quotes

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.

I don’t regret nothing.

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It’s the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: ‘He passed it on.’

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That’s the reason I’m still alive.

The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing.

No broken hearts, no broken necks.

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.

To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.