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

“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.”

Keith Richards

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

Keith Richards

“I don't regret nuthin…”

Keith Richards

“We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.”

Keith Richards book Life

Source: Life

“You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.”

Keith Richards

Keith Richards Quotes about people

“Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.”

Keith Richards

“But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?”

Keith Richards book Life

Source: Life

“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.”

Keith Richards

“Rap — so many words, so little said. What rap did that was impressive was to show there are so many tone-deaf people out there. All they need is a drum beat and somebody yelling over it and they're happy. There’s an enormous market for people who can't tell one note from another.”

Keith Richards

Reported in Jon Blistein, " Keith Richards: Rap Is for 'Tone-Deaf People' http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/keith-richards-rap-is-for-tone-deaf-people-20150903", Rolling Stone (September 3, 2015).

“People say: «Why don't you give it up?» I don't think they quite understand. I'm not doing it just for the money, or for you. I'm doing it for me. ”

Keith Richards

Keith Richards Quotes

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

Keith Richards

Source: Keith Richards: In His Own Words

“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.”

Keith Richards

Source: According to the Rolling Stones

“Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?”

Keith Richards book Life

Source: Life

“The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing…”

Keith Richards

“I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.”

Keith Richards

“It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!”

Keith Richards

Source: Keith Richards: In His Own Words

“I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.”

Keith Richards

“Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money”

Keith Richards book Life

Source: Life

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

Keith Richards book Life

Source: Life

“There are certain guys that are band players and there's certain guys that ain't. If there's anybody lazier than me, it's Eric (Clapton).”

Keith Richards

Mojo magazine; reported in " In quotes: Keith Richards http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6526133.stm", BBC (April 4, 2007).

“This morning on Dartford station a guy I knew at primary school came up to me. He's got every record Chuck Berry made. He is called Mick Jagger.”

Keith Richards

From letter to Keith's aunt Keef comes clean, The Times p4, 15 Oct 2010.

“The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.”

Keith Richards

BBC Newsnight 2005; reported in " In quotes: Keith Richards http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6526133.stm", BBC (April 4, 2007).

“I was number one on the Who's Likely To Die list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list.”

Keith Richards

NME; reported in " In quotes: Keith Richards http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6526133.stm", BBC (April 4, 2007).

“I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!”

Keith Richards

Interview 2006. http://youtube.com/watch?v=ohEz13V1Vhk&feature=related

“What interested me about Chuck Berry was the way he could step out of the rhythm part with such ease, throwing in a nice, simple riff, and then drop straight into the feel of it again. We used to play a lot more rhythm stuff. We'd do away with the differences between lead and rhythm guitar. You can't go into a shop and ask for a "lead guitar."”

Keith Richards

You're a guitar player, and you play a guitar.
[Denyer, Ralph, The Guitar Handbook, 2002, Alfred A. Knopf, 0-679-74275-1].

“I thought rock and roll was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expression of rebellion. It used to be one channel you could take without ever havin' to kiss arse, you know?”

Keith Richards

Rolling Stone; reported in " In quotes: Keith Richards http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6526133.stm", BBC (April 4, 2007).

“I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.”

Keith Richards

He tells Rolling Stone of his drug-taking past; reported in " In quotes: Keith Richards http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6526133.stm", BBC (April 4, 2007).

“I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues-the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again.”

Keith Richards

[Denyer, Ralph, The Guitar Handbook, 2002, 66, 0-679-74275-1]

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

Keith Richards