Quote

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

Keith Richards

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Keith Richards
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 18
Actor
Autobiographer
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Keith Richard
Nobody
Wants
Either
Dies
Young

More quotes by Keith Richards

Image
What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'
Keith Richards
Image
I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
Keith Richards
Image
It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.
Keith Richards
Image
When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)
Keith Richards
Image
I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
Keith Richards
Image
Everyone talks about rock these days the problem is they forget about the roll.
Keith Richards
Image
I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.
Keith Richards
Image
George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
Keith Richards
Image
Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
Keith Richards
Image
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.
Keith Richards
Image
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
Keith Richards
Image
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
Keith Richards
Image
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.
Keith Richards
Image
I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It's really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
Keith Richards
Image
If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't.
Keith Richards
Image
Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.
Keith Richards
Image
My life is full of broken halos.
Keith Richards
Image
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
Keith Richards
Image
Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.
Keith Richards
Image
I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
Keith Richards