Quote

What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

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
Deals
Five
Working
Age
Bigs
Sixty
Jobs
Retirement
Stills
Normal
Still
Deal

More quotes by Keith Richards

Image
To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.
Keith Richards
Image
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 for 'Arthur.'
Keith Richards
Image
I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
Keith Richards
Image
There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
Keith Richards
Image
I'm not getting old I'm evolving.
Keith Richards
Image
I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands.
Keith Richards
Image
Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.
Keith Richards
Image
A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
Keith Richards
Image
To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
Keith Richards
Image
I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
Keith Richards
Image
When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)
Keith Richards
Image
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.
Keith Richards
Image
I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
Keith Richards
Image
The public library is the great equaliser.
Keith Richards
Image
To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.
Keith Richards
Image
Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal
Keith Richards
Image
You don't find a style. A style finds you
Keith Richards
Image
Rap - so many words, so little said.
Keith Richards
Image
It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.
Keith Richards
Image
The Beatles were basically a vocal band.
Keith Richards