288 Quotes by Keith Richards

When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal

Most guys I know are assholes. I have some great asshole friends, but that's not the point. Friendship has got nothing to do with that. It's 'can you hang, can you talk about this without any feeling of distance between you?' Friendship is the diminishing of distance between people. That's what friendship is, and to me it's one of the most important things in the world.

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

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

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

I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It's really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.

I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.