Top 100 Quotes About Keith Richards
#1. To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
Keith Richards
#3. On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis.
Elton John
#4. The thing about being a songwriter is,even if you been fucked over, you can find consolation in writing about it, and pour it out. Everything has something to do with something; nothing is divorced. It becomes an experience,a feeling or a aconglomeration of experiences ...
Keith Richards
#5. A familiar Gusism was to greet a friend with 'Hello, don't be a cunt all your life.
Keith Richards
#6. I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.
Keith Richards
#8. Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be
blamed.
Keith Richards
#9. 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.
Keith Richards
#10. I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
Keith Richards
#11. I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.
Ringo Starr
#12. I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing.
Bobby Keys
#13. Keith Richards ... was once asked how he came up with all those amazing guitar riffs. His answer? He just starts playing until he makes the right mistake. In other words he's optimistic he will create something good by virtue of getting something "wrong."
Mark Stevenson
#14. Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
Keith Richards
#15. Great songs write themselves. You're just being led by the nose, or the ears. The skill is not to interfere with it too much. Ignore intelligence, ignore everything; just follow it where it takes you.
Keith Richards
#18. Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
Keith Richards
#19. 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
#20. I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones.
Nikki Sixx
#21. And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.
Keith Richards
#22. Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.
Keith Richards
#23. I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards, the John Paul Jones of my generation.
Steven Adler
#24. I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I'll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It's a little embarrassing to admit it; I'm an old man now. It's important to me though.
Keith Richards
#25. It was way out in the woods in a beautiful, huge log studio. Keith Richards came in and did the vocals with Levon. Again, a big party, but we did get a good cut out of it.
Scotty Moore
#26. I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.
Keith Richards
#27. [John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
Keith Richards
#28. The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.
Paul McCartney
#30. This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
Keith Richards
#31. You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.
Keith Richards
#32. Oh my God. I'm not Keith Richards. I'm Otis from Mayberry! A fucking drunk!
Dave Mustaine
#34. Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?
Keith Richards
#35. Captain Jack Sparrow is like a cross between Keith Richards and Pepe Le Pew.
Johnny Depp
#36. 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.
Keith Richards
#37. The thing is, all my heroes were junkies. Lenny Bruce, Keith Richards, William Burroughs, Miles Davis, Hubert Selby, Jr ... These guys were cool. They were committed. They would not have been caught dead doing an ALF episode.
Jerry Stahl
#40. If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted
elegantly.
Keith Richards
#41. It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it."
"What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?
Joe Hill
#42. When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
Keith Richards
#44. To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.
Keith Richards
#45. We're both pretty lousy, but together we are better than ten others.
Keith Richards
#46. He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day.
Kelley Armstrong
#47. I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.
Elton John
#48. Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
Keith Richards
#49. It's called the mysterious rhythm of life, ... I can't quite account for it. It's probably an addiction, quite honestly. I need that shot of stage every two or three years.
Keith Richards
#50. The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets.
Hunter S. Thompson
#51. I've never turned blue in someone else's
bathroom. I consider that the height of bad
manners.
Keith Richards
#52. The silence was suddenly too much. He hit the CD button on the car's radio. Brian Jones's sitar riff opened for Charlie Watts tribal-like drumbeat thundering from the speakers. Keith Richards' jangly guitar joined in, followed by Mick singing about seeing a red door that he wanted to paint black.
Glenn Rolfe
#53. I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
Keith Richards
#54. The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.
Keith Richards
#55. If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
Keith Richards
#56. Spare me the carefully thought out accessorising that is supposed to look casually thrown on, while in actuality, hours have been spent on the picking and choosing of said jewellery, scarves, etc. Unless you are Keith Richards and can absolutely pull it off, less is more.
Emma Ishta
#57. 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 ... When it works, baby, you've got wings.
Keith Richards
#58. I'm free of hypochondria
although I've got
everything else.
Keith Richards
#59. 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.
Keith Richards
#60. Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
Keith Richards
#61. All the contortions we go through just not to be ourselves for a few hours.
Keith Richards
#62. It made me sick - my name's Keith Richards. It hardly makes it against Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters, does it? On my first guitar I had Boy Blue written - just pathetic. But that was as good as I got at the time.
Keith Richards
#63. Keith Richards on change - "It's gotta go up and down. Otherwise, you won't know the difference. It would be just a bland, straight line, like lookin' at a heart machine. And when that straight line happens, baby, you're dead.
Jessica Pallington West
#65. One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience
Keith Richards
#66. Strange medical news from Pakistan: A man had a successful organ transplant with a dog. They gave the man a dog's organ. In a related story today, Keith Richards was seen chasing a mailman.
Craig Kilborn
#67. 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.
Keith Richards
#68. I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands
Keith Richards
#69. I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he's gonna do tomorrow and I'm just happy to wake up to see who's hanging around. Mick's rock and I'm roll.
Keith Richards
#70. When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)
Keith Richards
#71. It's one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It's another thing to play with him.
Keith Richards
#72. I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
Keith Richards
#73. There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.
Keith Richards
#74. Some of my most outrageous nights- I can only believe actually happened because of corroborating evidence. No wonder I'm famous for partying! The ultimate party- if it's any good- you can't remember it.
Keith Richards
#75. There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
Keith Richards
#76. I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.
Richie Sambora
#79. Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda," he told the Times. "I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just yet. He's the guy I'm gonna see, isn't it? I'm not going to the other place, let's face it.
Keith Richards
#80. You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.
Keith Richards
#81. I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
Keith Richards
#82. I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
Keith Richards
#83. I'm reading Keith Richards' autobiography. I didn't even know he could read, never mind write. Probably all recorded off a Marshall amplifier.
Sienna McQuillen
#84. The addiction was all about looking for oblivion, for forgetting, the contortions we go through just enough to be ourselves for a few hours.
Keith Richards
#85. Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
Keith Richards
#86. You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
Keith Richards
#87. Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal
Keith Richards
#88. 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.
Keith Richards
#89. I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
Keith Richards
#91. I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
Keith Richards
#93. You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
Keith Richards
#94. Image is like a long shadow. Even when the sun goes down, you can see it. I think some of it is that there is so much pressure to be that person that you become it, maybe, to a certain point you can bear. It's impossible not to end up being a parody of what you thought you were.
Keith Richards
#95. We are not old men. We are not worried about petty morals.
Keith Richards
#96. To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
Keith Richards
#97. You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do.
Nikki Sixx
#98. My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
Keith Richards
#99. You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.
Keith Richards
#100. Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.
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