Keith Richards Quotes

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.

Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know?

To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.

There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

The only new technology that interests me is when it sort of throws me back soundwise. And I can think, "Wow, that means I can go onstage and sound like Scotty Moore now and again!"

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

No broken hearts, no broken necks.

[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.

When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.

I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.

If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.

I wouldn't warm to [Chuck Berry] even if I was cremated next to him.

If you're gonna get wasted, get wasted elegantly.

Rap - so many words, so little said.

A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.

Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money

I don't regret nuthin.

I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' — or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?'

It's called the mysterious rhythm of life, ... I can't quite account for it. It's probably an addiction, quite honestly. I need that shot of stage every two or three years.

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

Well, I'm not putting death on the agenda. I don't want to see my old friend Lucifer just yet. He's the guy I'm gonna see, isn't it? I'm not going to the Other Place, let's face it.

It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!

Treat each guitar track-and each song-completely different. For example, if I'm using a certain amp and guitar on one track, I'll deliberately use something else for the next tune or overdub.

It's good to be anywhere.

I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.

Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. . .When it works, baby, you've got wings.

When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.

The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.

Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.

The Beatles were basically a vocal band.

I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.

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

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

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

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!