Keith Richards Quotes
- All Quotes
-
Some things get better with age. Like me.
-
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.
-
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
-
I'm an unpure purist, something like that.
-
No broken hearts, no broken necks.
-
There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
-
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
-
One of the great things about songwriting; it's not an intellectual experience
-
The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip!
-
The only new technology that interests me is when it sort of throws me back soundwise. And I can think, "Wow, that means I can go onstage and sound like Scotty Moore now and again!"
-
I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
-
I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
-
The public library is the great equaliser.
-
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.
-
You don't find a style. A style finds you...
-
Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.
-
One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience
-
Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'
-
It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
-
This morning on Dartford station a guy I knew at primary school came up to me. He's got every record Chuck Berry made. He is called Mick Jagger.
-
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 was number one on the Who's Likely To Die list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list.
-
I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.
-
Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.