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You don't find a style. A style finds you — Keith Richards

Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards. — Bill Walton

If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool. — Keith Richards

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

The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing... — Keith Richards

I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing. — Bobby Keys

I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge. — Ringo Starr

I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me! — Keith Richards

We bought Candy Twirls and Bull's-Eyes and Licorice & Blackcurrant. We weren't going to lower ourselves and score at the supermarket, were we? — 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 don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a
musician. — Keith Richards

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

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

I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones. — Nikki Sixx

Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor. — Keith Richards

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

Rap-so many words, so little said. — Keith Richards

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

I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one. — Keith Richards

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

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

One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab — Keith Richards

If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't. — Keith Richards

I have no idea what the audience makes of me. — Keith Richards

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

George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently. — Keith Richards

You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to. — Keith Richards

A familiar Gusism was to greet a friend with 'Hello, don't be a cunt all your life. — Keith Richards

My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. — Keith Richards

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

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. — Keith Richards

Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger? — Keith Richards

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush. — Keith Richards

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

Everything they'd been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show. — Keith Richards

When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry) — Keith Richards

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

What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet. — Keith Richards

I'm not getting old I'm evolving. — Keith Richards

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

I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records. — Keith Richards

I've been through more cold turkeys than there are freezers. — Keith Richards

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it. — Keith Richards

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

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

Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad. — Jack Bruce

I don't regret nuthin... — Keith Richards

I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room? — Keith Richards

I think I might have a bad psychic advisor. When I asked her to contact the dead, she gave me Keith Richards' phone number. — David Letterman

My life is full of broken halos. — Keith Richards

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. — Keith Richards

If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted
elegantly. — Keith Richards

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

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

Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.' — Keith Richards

Rock n Roll is music from the neck down. — Keith Richards

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

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere. — Keith Richards

We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right. — Keith Richards

Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole — 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

The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start. — Keith Richards

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

The addiction was all about looking for oblivion, for forgetting, the contortions we go through just enough to be ourselves for a few hours. — 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

He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day. — Kelley Armstrong

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

Memory is fiction, — Keith Richards

I'm militantly anti-drug abuse but love everything Keith Richards and some other drug goofballs do. — Ted Nugent

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

I'm free of hypochondria
although I've got
everything else. — Keith Richards

It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year. — Randy Bachman

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

Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications. — Keith Richards

All the contortions we go through just not to be ourselves for a few hours. — Keith Richards

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

We are not old men. We are not worried about petty morals. — 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

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

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that. — Sammy Hagar

I'm reading Keith Richards' autobiography. I didn't even know he could read, never mind write. Probably all recorded off a Marshall amplifier. — Sienna McQuillen

You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it. — Keith Richards

The public library is the great equaliser. — Keith Richards

I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones. — Richie Sambora

I only get ill when I give up drugs. — Keith Richards

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

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

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak. — Keith Richards

Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman. — Keith Richards

The Beatles were basically a vocal band. — Keith Richards

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

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience — Keith Richards

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

Me growing up in the '60s and '70s, there was almost something romantic about drugs, Keith Richards taking drugs and stuff. — Robert Hilburn

It's one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It's another thing to play with him. — Keith Richards

I was Number 1 on the Who's Likely to Die list for 10 years ... I was really disappointed when I fell off that list. — Keith Richards

When you're 20, you can't imagine being 30. When you're 30, you can't imagine being 40. When you're 40, you can't imagine being 100. — 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

Wild Horses" started in a B-minor chord, and Stu didn't play minor chords, "fucking Chinese music. — Keith Richards