Keith Richards Quotes - Page 3

Some of my most outrageous nights- I can only believe actually happened because of corroborating evidence. No wonder I'm famous for partying! The ultimate party- if it's any good- you can't remember it.

I'm an unpure purist, something like that.

Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.

The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

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.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

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.

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

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're constantly on the alert. That faculty gets trained in you over the years: observing people, how they react to one another, which in a way makes you weirdly distant. ... It's a little of Peeping Tom, being a song-writer.

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.

I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.

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

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

I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, "I tried, I can't do it" and give up and don't try it again; they get too discouraged.

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.

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

But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.

There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

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.

I haven't stopped smoking...anything