Keith Richards Quotes
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Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
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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.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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I haven't stopped smoking...anything...
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I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other...
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What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.
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Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.
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Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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I don't know if people in New York recognize me or not. I'm not really conscious of it. If somebody stops me, then I suddenly realize that people are looking at me, but other times they may be doing it and I don't even know because I'm engrossed in something else.
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Treat each guitar track-and each song-completely different. For example, if I'm using a certain amp and guitar on one track, I'll deliberately use something else for the next tune or overdub.
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What is life but playing with time?
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You're sitting with some guys, and you're playing and you go, "Ooh, yeah!" That feeling is worth more than anything. There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. You're elevated because you're with a bunch of guys that want to do the same thing as you. And when it works, baby, you've got wings. You know you've been somewhere most people will never get; you've been to a special place.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.
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John Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn't die of an overdose, he died of fame.
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I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician.
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If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't.
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I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.
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I don't regret nuthin.
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In fact, I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't bother to spring for two joints - heaven and hell. They're the same place, but heaven is when you get everything you want and you meet Mummy and Daddy and your best friends and you all have a hug and a kiss and play your harps. Hell is the same place - no fire and brimstone - but they just all pass by and don't see you. There's nothing, no recognition. You're waving, “It's me, your father,” but you're invisible. You're on a cloud, you've got your harp, but you can't play with nobody because they don't see you. That's hell.