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
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.
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
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.
I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
I haven't stopped smoking...anything
When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.
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.
A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.
I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.
To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.