Quotes from Keith Richards

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

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.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

All the contortions we go through just not to be ourselves for a few hours.

The thing about being a songwriter is,even if you been fucked over, you can find consolation in writing about it, and pour it out. Everything has something to do with something; nothing is divorced. It becomes an experience,a feeling or a aconglomeration of experiences...

I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be anywhere.

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

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

Great songs write themselves. You're just being led by the nose, or the ears. The skill is not to interfere with it too much. Ignore intelligence, ignore everything; just follow it where it takes you.