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
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.
It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
You get too close to it. You have to wait for the reaction,
I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I can't get out of it. It fascinates me. I like to point out the rawer points of life.
I thought it was about time he owned up and stepped out of that closed shell. I knew he went through bad periods, even if he didn't want to write about it. I used to wrestle with that too. As a writer, you don't want to bore people with your own story. But you eventually realize that you're not the only one who is lonely or having problems.
Our biggest predictor of a student dropping out is socially and economically disadvantaged background, ... Some of the kids who don't know if they have a roof over their head, it's sort of difficult to motivate them to be in school.
Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.
Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere.
I didn't know you guys were so big,
I remember a sense of doom when our first record got in the top 20. It was conventional wisdom at the time that it would all be over in two years.
I haven't met him yet, I can't wait. I'm a Stones fan.