288 Quotes by Keith Richards

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.

About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I’m good at. I know what I ain’t. I’m always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that’s the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.

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

It might appear that nothing is happening, but that’s actually when it really happens.

You don’t find a style. A style finds you.

A painter’s got a canvas. The writer’s got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

If you’ve gotta think about being cool, you ain’t cool.

When you’re 20, you can’t imagine being 30. When you’re 30, you can’t imagine being 40. When you’re 40, you can’t imagine being 100.

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.