288 Quotes by Keith Richards

If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't.

If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.

One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain't; you've got to be a Jimi to do that, you've got to be one of the special cats.

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

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?

I'm free of hypochondria-- although I've got everything else.

It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.

If you're gonna get wasted, get wasted elegantly.

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.