Keith Richards Quotes - BrainyQuote

English - Musician Born: December 18, 1943 See also: Quotes about Keith Richards

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Music Guitar You Rock And Roll

Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

Me Police Problem Clear

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

Music Rock And Roll Rock Neck

About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.

Love Good Myself Family

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.

Life You Rock Say

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

Guitar You Thinking Start

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

Me Guitar Bored Mean

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

Great Here Anywhere

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

Music Moon Sun You

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

Good Death Music People

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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.

Life Me Mistake Game

Songwriting's a weird game.

Game Weird Songwriting

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

Me Doctor Live Mean

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

Problem Forget Rock Everyone

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

Moon Sun You Stones Got

The Beatles were basically a vocal band.

Band Beatles Were Vocal

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

Addiction Know Something About

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

I Am Man Great You

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.

Thoughts Experience Brain Flying

I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.

Myself Hair Never Anybody

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

Way Story Tell Different

To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

Work Me Long Thought

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Life Look Writing Because

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

Me Guitar Bored Piano

It's good to be anywhere.

Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know?

You Enjoy Think Know

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