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
The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing...
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.
I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.
A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing - the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It's really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.