Quotes by Keith Richards

To me, as long as we’ve known each other, I’ve always thought Mick’s most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.

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

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

I’ve always been suspicious of TV, I’ve always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

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

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.

The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

If you don’t know the blues… there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.