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
I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
I thought rock and roll was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expression of rebellion. It used to be one channel you could take without ever havin' to kiss arse, you know?
I'm free of hypochondria-- although I've got everything else.
It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
If you're gonna get wasted, get wasted elegantly.
It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.
Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
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.
What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician; HE PASSED IT ON.
No broken hearts, no broken necks.
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.
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.
Rap-so many words, so little said.
Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.