Explore Quotes by Keith Richards

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a_x000D_ musician.

Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.

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.

I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.

Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be _x000D_ blamed.

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

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.

I've never turned blue in someone else's _x000D_ bathroom. I consider that the height of bad_x000D_ manners.

True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted_x000D_ elegantly.

My life is full of broken halos.

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

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

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 of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

I am not doing it just for the money or for you.I am doing it for me.

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