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
My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab
It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!
I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.
I don't regret nuthin...
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.
I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know?
... 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..
Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.
It's good to be anywhere.
When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.
The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.