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You don't find a style. A style finds you
— Keith Richards
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'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
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 amusician. — 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
Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.
— 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
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
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
— 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
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
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 wastedelegantly. — 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
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
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'm free of hypochondriaalthough 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
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
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
The Beatles were basically a vocal band.
— 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
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
