Keith Richards Quotes - Page 5

I don't regret nuthin.

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

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

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.

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

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

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

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'

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

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

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

Songwriting's a weird game.

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.

George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.

There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend, for all I know. And so whenever you pick up the guitar it's not so much the sound of the instrument itself, it's like the ting that you add onto it-the attitude.

Rap - so many words, so little said.

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

If you're gonna get wasted, get wasted elegantly.

What interested me about Chuck Berry was the way he could step out of the rhythm part with such ease, throwing in a nice, simple riff, and then drop straight into the feel of it again. We used to play a lot more rhythm stuff. We'd do away with the differences between lead and rhythm guitar. You can't go into a shop and ask for a "lead guitar". You're a guitar player, and you play a guitar.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

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

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.