Keith Richards
Keith Richards
Keith Richardsis an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, best-selling memoirist, and founding member of the rock band The Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone Magazine credited Richards for "rock's greatest single body of riffs" on guitar and ranked him 4th on its list of 100 best guitarists. Fourteen songs that Richards wrote with the Rolling Stones' lead vocalist Mick Jagger are listed among Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The Stones are generally known for their guitar interplay of rhythm...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth18 December 1943
CityDartford, England
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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.
What is life but playing with time?
Some things get better with age. Like me.
I'm an unpure purist, something like that.
I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive.
In fact, I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't bother to spring for two joints - heaven and hell. They're the same place, but heaven is when you get everything you want and you meet Mummy and Daddy and your best friends and you all have a hug and a kiss and play your harps. Hell is the same place - no fire and brimstone - but they all pass by and don't see you. There's nothing, no recognition. You're waving, "It's me, your father," but you're invisible. You're on a cloud, you've got your harp, but you can't play with nobody because they don't see you. That's hell.
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.