288 Quotes by Keith Richards

Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

Some people think I’m a mythical genius, others think I’m a junkie madman.

I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.

We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it’s just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.

You know, life’s a funny thing. Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, ‘Keith! Ron! The Police are here!’ Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.

The rock’s easy, but the roll is another thing...

Retire? I can’t spell the word. I’d play in a wheelchair.

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