Quotes By Keith Richards

It's good to be anywhere.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

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.

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

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

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

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

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

I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

I only get ill when I give up drugs.

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

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

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

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.

You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.

Songwriting's a weird game.

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.

The Beatles were basically a vocal band.

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.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

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