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
There's a young man on my team that got 23 rebounds tonight, and that's probably a big reason (for the win). It got to be where we shoot it, miss it, and Paul will get it back.
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,
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.
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 occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' — or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?'
One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab
My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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.