288 Quotes by Keith Richards

I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.

There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.

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.

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.

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

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