Keith Richards And Quotations

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.

I thought rock and roll was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expression of rebellion. It used to be one channel you could take without ever havin' to kiss arse, you know?