Keith Richards (b.1943) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, actor, and one of the original members of the rock band The Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone Magazine credited Richards for “rock’s greatest single body of riffs” on guitar and ranked him 4th on its list of 100 best guitarists. Fourteen songs that Richards wrote with the Rolling Stones’ lead vocalist Mick Jagger are listed among Rolling Stone magazine’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time”. The Stones are generally known for their guitar interplay of rhythm and lead with Brian Jones, Mick Taylor and Ronnie Wood over the years. In spite of this, Richards plays the only guitar tracks on some of their most famous songs including “Paint It Black”, “Ruby Tuesday”, “Sympathy for the Devil”, and “Gimme Shelter”.
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If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
—Keith Richards
Topics: Authority
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
—Keith Richards
Topics: Music
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
—Keith Richards
Topics: Age, Aging
I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
—Keith Richards
Topics: Justice
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
—Keith Richards
Topics: One liners, Audiences
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