Keith richards Quotes

I'd like to make a show with Keith Richards.

— Anthony Bourdain

I never wanted to be Keith Richards or Jimmy Page.

— Rick Nielsen

I want to play Keith Richards.

— Kaya Scodelario

On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis.

— Elton John

He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day.

— Kelley Armstrong

When I grew up, I had influences as diverse as Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix.

— Billy Squier

I'm militantly anti-drug abuse but love everything Keith Richards and some other drug goofballs do.

— Ted Nugent

I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.

— Richie Sambora

Keith Richards is the only man who can make the Osbournes look Amish.

— Robin Williams

I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones.

— Nikki Sixx

I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson.

— Natalie Massenet

Everything I know, I stole directly from Ace Frehley, Angus Young, and Keith Richards. That's how you learn.

— Mike McCready

“To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart," Richards notes, "is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread…

— Keith Richards

If you look at Keith Richards' hands, from the Rolling Stones, they're these gnarled, arthritic - it looks like people beat his…

— Tim Miller

I wanted to emulate music from America - young punks playing rock n' roll is what it was. I read part of…

— Jimmy Page

Even when I was a kid, I always sort of identified myself with Keith Richards and Slash more than the singers of…

— Tobias Forge

I think I might have a bad psychic advisor. When I asked her to contact the dead, she gave me Keith Richards'…

— David Letterman

“Keith Richards I remember. There was a horse backstage that week, and I was in my dressing area and I saw Keith…

— Tom Shales

The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it,…

— Hunter S. Thompson

There are famous examples of people who just had really strange ways - [Jimi] Hendrix being the biggest example of that. Or…

— Bryce Dessner

I saw an interview with Keith Richards. He said, 'How else could a kid in Dartford suddenly connect with and understand what…

— Paul Weller

I don't know, but I always loved that image of a girl putting toenail polish on a guy - her boyfriend, or…

— Marc Jacobs

Keith Richards ... was once asked how he came up with all those amazing guitar riffs. His answer? He just starts playing…

— Mark Stevenson

I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading…

— Jo Nesbo

My discussion with Keith Richards about the creative process led me to believe that there's an invisible presence of a stream of…

— Billy Gibbons

In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob…

— Iggy Pop

“Another surprising fan mention came from Keith Richards, the guitarist for the Rolling Stones, who defended his dissipated lifestyle by correctly citing…

— Thomas E Ricks

I said if you want to be Keith Richards, you've got to listen to Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry. Then I thought,…

— George Thorogood

“But the Grateful Dead, as the fanatic fans point out, are a way of life: someone else's. Twentieth-century teenagers, especially American ones,…

— Sarah Vowell

“Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us--simpatico dudes that we are--while playing this complicated song together, might…

— Dave Hickey

Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens.

— Bill Hicks

I wish I didn't care about what people thought as much as Keith Richards doesn't care.

— Morgan Neville

“Oh my God. I'm not Keith Richards. I'm Otis from Mayberry! A fucking drunk!”

— Dave Mustaine

We had a giant framed picture of Keith Richards in our house growing up, so that was fun.

— Sarah Sherman

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

— Sammy Hagar

Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

— Jack Bruce

If you look at photos of the Gettysburg Address there's a guy off to the right who I think is Keith Richards.

— Dave Barry

“Every time you smoke a cigarette, God takes an hour off your life and gives it to Keith Richards”

— Anonymous

Captain Jack Sparrow is like a cross between Keith Richards and Pepe Le Pew.

— Johnny Depp

I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.

— Ringo Starr