Quotes By Keith Richards

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.

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.

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.

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.

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

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

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!

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

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.