We are not old men. We are not worried about petty morals.
Image is like a long shadow. Even when the sun goes down, you can see it. I think some of it is that there is so much pressure to be that person that you become it, maybe, to a certain point you can b...
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 an...
I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
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.
One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience
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 scre...
My life is full of broken halos.
I’ve been through more cold turkeys than there are freezers.
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.
To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.
Y, aún con todo, la gente quiere llegar al otro, al corazón del otro, por eso existe la música: si no eres capaz de decirlo, cántalo.
To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart, Richards notes, is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart. Keith Richards from his autobiog...
The thing about being a songwriter is,even if you been fucked over, you can find consolation in writing about it, and pour it out. Everything has something to do with something; nothing is divorced. I...
A familiar Gusism was to greet a friend with 'Hello, don't be a cunt all your life.
It was decreed that we should leave French territory until I was allowed back, but I had to keep renting Nellcôte as some kind of bond, at $2,400 a week.
We were in Mississippi. We’d been playing this music, and it had all been very respectful, but then we were actually there sniffing it. You want to be a blues player, the next minute you fucking well...
We bought Candy Twirls and Bull's-Eyes and Licorice & Blackcurrant. We weren't going to lower ourselves and score at the supermarket, were we?
La gente me pregunta por qué no lo dejas?. El hecho es que no me puedo retirar hasta que no estire la pata. Creo que no acaban de entender lo que gano con todo esto. No lo hago sólo por el dinero ni p...
Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal