Keith Richards
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"Keith Richards" is an English musician, singer and songwriter, and one of the original members of the English Rock music/rock band the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine credited Richards for "rock's greatest single body of riffs" on guitar and ranked him 4th on its list of 100 best guitarists. Fourteen songs that Richards wrote with the Rolling Stones' lead vocalist Mick Jagger are listed among Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

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You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

I only get ill when I give up drugs.

The king is the man who can.

Mick has to get up in the morning with a plan. Who he's going to call, what he's going to eat, where he's going to go. Me, I wake up, praise the Lord, then make sure all the phones are turned off. If we were a mum-and-pop operation, then he'd be Mum.

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

Passing the vodka bottle. And playing the guitar.

Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.