Keith Richards quotes

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet. (Keith Richards)
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
Keith Richards
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
Keith Richards
People say: «Why don't you give it up?» I don't think they quite understand. I'm not doing it just for the money, or for you. I'm doing it for me.
Keith Richards
I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.
Keith Richards
The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
Keith Richards
I was number one on the Who's Likely To Die list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list.
Keith Richards
I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues-the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again.
Keith Richards
It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.
Keith Richards
I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
Keith Richards
I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory. (Keith Richards)
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.
Keith Richards
I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
Keith Richards
Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn't die of an overdose, he died of fame.
Keith Richards
I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.
Keith Richards
True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you; you just grow into each other.
Keith Richards
Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.
Keith Richards
This morning on Dartford station a guy I knew at primary school came up to me. He's got every record Chuck Berry made. He is called Mick Jagger.
Keith Richards
I don't regret nuthin...
Keith Richards
Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones.
Keith Richards
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. (Keith Richards)
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
Keith Richards
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
Keith Richards
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
Keith Richards
Rap - so many words, so little said. What rap did that was impressive was to show there are so many tone-deaf people out there. All they need is a drum beat and somebody yelling over it and they're happy. There's an enormous market for people who can't tell one note from another.
Keith Richards