Keith Richards Quotes

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

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

When you’re supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it’s very easy in this game to believe you’re something special.

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

The Beatles were basically a vocal band.

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

I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

You didn’t know whether Chuck Berry was black or white – it was not a concern.

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.

Songwriting’s a weird game.

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.

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

You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.

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.