Keith Richards Quotes

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

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.

You don't find a style. A style finds you

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

Some things get better with age. Like me.