Keith Richards
Keith Richards
Keith Richardsis an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, best-selling memoirist, and founding member of the rock band The Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone Magazine credited Richards for "rock's greatest single body of riffs" on guitar and ranked him 4th on its list of 100 best guitarists. Fourteen songs that Richards wrote with the Rolling Stones' lead vocalist Mick Jagger are listed among Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The Stones are generally known for their guitar interplay of rhythm...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth18 December 1943
CityDartford, England
Keith Richards quotes about
I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
I thought rock and roll was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expression of rebellion. It used to be one channel you could take without ever havin' to kiss arse, you know?
I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues-the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again.
You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.
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.
When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.
To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.
I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' — or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?'
I was Number 1 on the Who's Likely to Die list for 10 years...I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab
Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.