Keith Richards Rocks Quotations

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

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.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he's gonna do tomorrow and I'm just happy to wake up to see who's hanging around. Mick's rock and I'm roll.

The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing...

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.

... I don't like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned before hand ... you've got to give the band something to use its imagination on as well. That can make a very ordinary song come alive into something totally different ... the X-factor - so important in rock and roll - which is the feel..

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.

Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.