288 Quotes by Keith Richards

One of the great things about songwrighting; it’s not an intellectual experience.

You’re always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up.

I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.

And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You’ve got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.

One minute I’m standing at Ronnie Scott’s getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I’m on a marble slab.

I’m an unpure purist, something like that.

I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor. Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.

Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn’t die of an overdose, he died of fame.

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.