Quotes By Keith Richards

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

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 never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

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.

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 only get ill when I give up drugs.

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

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

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.

Songwriting's a weird game.

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

It's good to be anywhere.

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.

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

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.

The Beatles were basically a vocal band.

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

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

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

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.