Keith Richards quotes

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 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.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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