288 Quotes by Keith Richards

In a strange way, albums can take on their own personality,

I remember a sense of doom when our first record got in the top 20. It was conventional wisdom at the time that it would all be over in two years.

I haven't met him yet, I can't wait. I'm a Stones fan.

I didn't know you guys were so big,

The only new technology that interests me is when it sort of throws me back soundwise. And I can think, "Wow, that means I can go onstage and sound like Scotty Moore now and again!"

I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, "I tried, I can't do it" and give up and don't try it again; they get too discouraged.

It made me sick - my name's Keith Richards. It hardly makes it against Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters, does it? On my first guitar I had Boy Blue written - just pathetic. But that was as good as I got at the time.

George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.

I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' — or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?'