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
Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money
There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
I haven't stopped smoking...anything
I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.
Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.
... I don't like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned before hand ... you've got to give the band something to use its imagination on as well. That can make a very ordinary song come alive into something totally different ... the X-factor - so important in rock and roll - which is the feel..
My life is full of broken halos.
I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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.
Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.