Keith Richards quotes

Born
18 December 1943, Dartford, Kent, England.

Occupation
Musician, songwriter.

Keith Richards is an English musician and songwriter.

It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.
– Keith Richards

You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.
– Keith Richards

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

I’ve always been suspicious of TV, I’ve always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
– Keith Richards

Let me be clear about this. I don’t have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
– Keith Richards

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.
– Keith Richards

To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
– Keith Richards

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
– Keith Richards

Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
– Keith Richards

You’re always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up.
– Keith Richards

The public library is the great equaliser.
– Keith Richards

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

Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
– Keith Richards

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

Rap – so many words, so little said.
– Keith Richards

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

I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
– Keith Richards

I’m not getting old I’m evolving.
– Keith Richards

A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
– Keith Richards

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
– Keith Richards

You don’t find a style. A style finds you.
– Keith Richards

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
– Keith Richards

I’ve never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
– Keith Richards

Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.
– Keith Richards

There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, ‘Keith! Ron! The Police are here!’ Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.
– 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

Some things get better with age. Like me.
– Keith Richards

It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
– Keith Richards

I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I’ll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It’s a little embarrassing to admit it; I’m an old man now. It’s important to me though.
– Keith Richards

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.
– Keith Richards

I only get ill when I give up drugs… I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
– Keith Richards

I’m an unpure purist, something like that.
– 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

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

If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.
– Keith Richards

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

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

To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
– Keith Richards