Keith Richards Quotes

There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. T...

Classic of '43. Don't knock it. A Vintage year.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the chur...

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wou...

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be anywhere.

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You ...

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very e...

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in th...

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

I can’t imagine what other people think cold turkey is like. It is fucking awful. On the scale of th...

...I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't bother to spring for two joints - heaven...

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll o...

I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to...

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling St...

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the chur...

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, w...

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was v...