Keith Richards
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Keith Richards (born December 18, 1943 in Dartford, Kent), is a British guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work with The Rolling Stones.
- "Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem."
- "If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet."
- "Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll."
- "Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards."
- I thought it was ludicrous to take one of those gongs from the establishment...it's not what the Stones is about, is it? I don't want to step out on stage with someone wearing a fucking coronet and sporting the old ermine. I told Mick, 'It's a fucking paltry honour.
- Commenting on Mick Jagger receiving a Knighthood in 2003
- "The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do." -on his often fractuous relationship with Jagger.
- "Getting older is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get."
- "I was looking for Leonardo da Vinci's book on anatomy. I learned a lot about anatomy but didn't find the book." -after falling from a ladder in his library and breaking three ribs and puncturing a lung.
- "If you’re lucky enough to be a father, you'll learn a whole new kind of love….. it's all full of purity and innocence, and it's just smiling at you and wants to kiss you and hug you, you've never felt so loved in your life. It's that bit of love you gave your own parents, the bit you don't remember - your kids give that back to you and you realize, I've just been given the first two or three years of my life back."
- "I expected him to come in like this (changes his voice and raises his arm in a threatening gesture): "Where have you been, you little sod?" Instead, this little man comes in and says: "Hello, son, how are you?" It made my heart bleed. (on meeting his father after 20 years)"
- "I'm not the guys I see on MTV, who obviously think they are me."
