Keith Richards Quotes

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.

If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.

I haven’t stopped smoking; anything.

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

I 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.

Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you’re a grownup, but it’s not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.

Love has sold more songs than you’ve had hot dinners.