Song Quotes by Keith Richards

Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.

— Keith Richards

The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing...

— Keith Richards

The Beatles were basically a vocal band.

— Keith Richards

Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.

— Keith Richards

Songwriting's a weird game.

— Keith Richards

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

— Keith Richards

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

— Keith Richards

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing…

— Keith Richards

Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole

— Keith Richards

If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.

— Keith Richards

Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

— Keith Richards

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

— Keith Richards

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

— Keith Richards

The only new technology that interests me is when it sort of throws me back soundwise. And I can think, "Wow, that…

— Keith Richards

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

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

— Keith Richards

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

— Keith Richards

I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing - the melodic touch, a beautiful…

— Keith Richards

Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I can't get out…

— Keith Richards

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

I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But…

— Keith Richards

“I firmly believe if you want to be a guitar player, you better start on acoustic and then graduate to electric. Don’t…

— Keith Richards

The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an…

— Keith Richards

“And you listen to some of that meticulous Mozart stuff and Vivaldi and you realize that they knew that too. They knew…

— Keith Richards

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

What interested me about Chuck Berry was the way he could step out of the rhythm part with such ease, throwing in…

— Keith Richards

... I don't like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned before hand ... you've got…

— Keith Richards

“The thing about being a songwriter is,even if you been fucked over, you can find consolation in writing about it, and pour…

— Keith Richards

One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently…

— Keith Richards

We do what we want to do. We write songs. We try not to repeat ourselves too much. We have our own…

— Keith Richards

“We were in Mississippi. We’d been playing this music, and it had all been very respectful, but then we were actually there…

— Keith Richards

What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people’s hearts.…

— Keith Richards

It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.

— Keith Richards

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

— Keith Richards

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat…

— Keith Richards

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

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in…

— Keith Richards

Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short…

— Keith Richards