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
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.
What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician; HE PASSED IT ON.
No broken hearts, no broken necks.
To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.
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.
Rap-so many words, so little said.
Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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.
The Beatles were basically a vocal band.
You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.
Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.
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 don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.