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
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
The public library is the great equaliser.
I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.
I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.
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.
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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.
If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't.
Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I can't get out of it. It fascinates me. I like to point out the rawer points of life.