Keith Richards Quotes

Keith Richards — English Musician born on December 18, 1943,

Keith Richards is an English musician, singer and songwriter, actor, and one of the original members 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 and lead with Brian Jones, Mick Taylor and Ronnie Wood over the years. In spite of this, Richards plays the only guitar tracks on some of their most famous songs including "Paint It Black", "Ruby Tuesday", "Sympathy for the Devil", and "Gimme Shelter"... (wikipedia)

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.