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
Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I can't get out of it. It fascinates me. I like to point out the rawer points of life.
I remember a sense of doom when our first record got in the top 20. It was conventional wisdom at the time that it would all be over in two years.
In a strange way, albums can take on their own personality,
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.
I haven't stopped smoking...anything
It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.
And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.
About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.
I'm not getting old I'm evolving.
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.
Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.
It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.