Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
Treat each guitar track-and each song-completely different. For example, if I'm using a certain amp and guitar on one track, I'll deliberately… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
It made me sick - my name's Keith Richards. It hardly makes it against Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters, does it? On… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend,… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
What interested me about Chuck Berry was the way he could step out of the rhythm part with such ease, throwing in… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
“When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
“Wild Horses" started in a B-minor chord, and Stu didn't play minor chords, "fucking Chinese music.” — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
“And you listen to some of that meticulous Mozart stuff and Vivaldi and you realize that they knew that too. They knew when to… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
It's called the mysterious rhythm of life, ... I can't quite account for it. It's probably an addiction, quite honestly. I need that shot… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me! — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
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. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
“La gente me pregunta "por qué no lo dejas?". El hecho es que no me puedo retirar hasta que no estire la pata. Creo… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image