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
You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up
To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.
One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience
I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.
We do what we want to do. We write songs. We try not to repeat ourselves too much. We have our own sound and our own way of doing things. Up until now it has always been enjoyable. None of the members have ever got to the point where they don't want to be involved in it ... It's not entirely possible for me to stand back and look at the Rolling Stones because being a part of it you can't. I wish that I could just sit in the audience for one night and see the show. Everyone in the band has said that at some point. But then you wouldn't be seeing the whole band. And that's the problem with that.
Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.
Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal
When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)
Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.