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
It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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.
Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
Songwriting's a weird game.
Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.
I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.
If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.
When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)