33 Famous Quotes By Keith Richards For A Rhythmic Life
![If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31010.jpg)
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
![When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31011.jpg)
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
![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.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31012.jpg)
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.
![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.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31013.jpg)
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.
![Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31014.jpg)
Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?
![We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31016.jpg)
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
![You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31015.jpg)
You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.
![The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing...](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31018.jpg)
The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing...
![Memory is fiction,](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31017.jpg)
Memory is fiction,
![I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31019.jpg)
I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.
![It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31020.jpg)
It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!
![But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation:](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31022.jpg)
But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?
![I don't regret nuthin...](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31021.jpg)
I don't regret nuthin...
![Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31023.jpg)
Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money
![Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31024.jpg)
Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.
![True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31025.jpg)
True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other
![My life is full of broken halos.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31028.jpg)
My life is full of broken halos.
![And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31027.jpg)
And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.
![I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31026.jpg)
I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.
![Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31029.jpg)
Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.
![[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31032.jpg)
[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
![One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31031.jpg)
One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience
![Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31030.jpg)
Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
![If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31034.jpg)
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
![A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31033.jpg)
A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.
![Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31036.jpg)
Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal
![I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31035.jpg)
I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
![I am not doing it just for the money or for you.I am doing it for me.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31037.jpg)
I am not doing it just for the money or for you.I am doing it for me.
![I was husband for a week. Changed the baby's diapers. There's somebody in a suburb in Melbourne who doesn't even know i wiped his ass](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31038.jpg)
I was husband for a week. Changed the baby's diapers. There's somebody in a suburb in Melbourne who doesn't even know i wiped his ass
![All the contortions we go through just not to be ourselves for a few hours.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/keith-richards-31041.jpg)
All the contortions we go through just not to be ourselves for a few hours.