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
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.
Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.
I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.
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.
Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
I'm not getting old I'm evolving.
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician.