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I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones. -- Nikki Sixx
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad. -- Jack Bruce
I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones. -- Richie Sambora
I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that. -- Sammy Hagar
It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year. -- Randy Bachman
The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too. -- Paul McCartney
I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing. -- Bobby Keys
I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards, the John Paul Jones of my generation. -- Steven Adler
I'm more old school: I want to be like Keith Richards on stage. It's not interesting to see straight-from-runway clothes slapped on an artist. It's more interesting when you see people who have their own style. -- Lykke Li
It was way out in the woods in a beautiful, huge log studio. Keith Richards came in and did the vocals with Levon. Again, a big party, but we did get a good cut out of it. -- Scotty Moore
I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson in his mug shot. But as I think Keith Richards is pretty great-looking, I'm embracing that part of me. -- Natalie Massenet
In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke. -- Iggy Pop
John Lennon, who was a good friend of mine, he had one of the best senses of humor of any human being. And Keith Richards, fantastic sense of humor. They were smart, sharp. They had their own thoughts on matters. -- Bobby Keys
One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded. -- Tommy Chong
I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry. -- Jo Nesbo
You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do. -- Nikki Sixx
I don't like to waste notes, not even one. I like to put the right note in the right place, and my influences have always been those kinds of players. Keith Richards comes to mind, and I really like Nils Lofgren's soloing, because he's so melodic. I love John Lennon's rhythm playing, and George Harrison was an incredible guitarist. -- Johnny Marr
I don't know, but I always loved that image of a girl putting toenail polish on a guy - her boyfriend, or something like that. Or a guy waking up in the morning and reaching over and putting on his girlfriend's shirt. Like Keith Richards putting on one of Anita Pallenberg's blouses, or Courtney Love putting nail polish on Kurt Cobain. -- Marc Jacobs
I'd like to make a show with Keith Richards. -- Anthony Bourdain
On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis. -- Elton John
Keith Richards is the only man who can make the Osbournes look Amish. -- Robin Williams
Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health nut. The plot thickens. -- Bill Hicks
I'm militantly anti-drug abuse but love everything Keith Richards and some other drug goofballs do. -- Ted Nugent
He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day. -- Kelley Armstrong
I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson. -- Natalie Massenet
I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge. -- Ringo Starr
If you look at photos of the Gettysburg Address there's a guy off to the right who I think is Keith Richards. -- Dave Barry
Me growing up in the '60s and '70s, there was almost something romantic about drugs, Keith Richards taking drugs and stuff. -- Robert Hilburn
I think I might have a bad psychic advisor. When I asked her to contact the dead, she gave me Keith Richards' phone number. -- David Letterman
Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards. -- Bill Walton
I would love to embody the attitude of Iggy Pop or Keith Richards: a ballsy mentality. Stylistically, I love Vivienne Westwood - those capes! I'm obsessed. -- Kesha
I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards, the John Paul Jones of my generation -- Steven Adler
One thing that will make you quit smoking is sitting across from Keith Richards all night. I don't mind being ugly, but I sure don't want to look like that. -- Kid Rock
I'm not sure you can count as history, was Keith Richards's "Life," which he so modestly titled it. I did find it a fascinating book. Keith's a pretty honest fellow. -- Dave Barry
The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death. -- Norm MacDonald
I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young. -- Elton John
There are famous examples of people who just had really strange ways - [Jimi] Hendrix being the biggest example of that. Or someone like Keith Richards, he just has a really idiosyncratic style. -- Bryce Dessner
Strange medical news from Pakistan: A man had a successful organ transplant with a dog. They gave the man a dog's organ. In a related story today, Keith Richards was seen chasing a mailman. -- Craig Kilborn
It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it." "What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards? -- Joe Hill
Keith Richards ... was once asked how he came up with all those amazing guitar riffs. His answer? He just starts playing until he makes the right mistake. In other words he's optimistic he will create something good by virtue of getting something "wrong." -- Mark Stevenson
The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I saw an interview with Keith Richards. He said, 'How else could a kid in Dartford suddenly connect with and understand what Muddy Waters is singing?' There's a cultural difference, but there's just something in that music that subconsciously or internally you just understand; it just makes sense. -- Paul Weller
My discussion with Keith Richards about the creative process led me to believe that there's an invisible presence of a stream of ever-flowing creativity that we overhear-all you have to do is pull up the antenna and dial it in. This presence allows you to maintain your sense of origin and move forward. -- Billy Gibbons
It made me sick - my name's Keith Richards. It hardly makes it against Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters, does it? On my first guitar I had Boy Blue written - just pathetic. But that was as good as I got at the time. -- Keith Richards
I read Warren Zevon's bizarre biography, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead." His wife, Crystal Zevon, posthumously published a journal he wrote and some interviews with ex-band members. Like [Keith] Richards's book "Life," it's brutally honest. -- Dave Barry

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