Keith Richards

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

“I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.”

“You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.”

“I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere.”

“You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.”

“Songwriting's a weird game.”

“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 the bones.”

“The Beatles were basically a vocal band.”

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

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

“When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.”

“I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.”

“...I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't bother to spring for two joints - heaven and hell. They're the same place, but heaven is when you get everything you want and you meet Mommy and Daddy and your best friends and you all have a hug and a kiss and play your harps. Hell is the same place - no fire and brimstone - but they just all pass by and don't see you. There's nothing, no recognition. You're waving, "It's me, your father," but you're invisible. You're on a cloud, you've got your harp, but you can't play with nobody because they don't see you. That's hell.”

“I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.”

“When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.”

“Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.”