Keith Richards Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people’s hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or at least get a resonance, where other people become a bigger instrument than the one you’re playing. It becomes almost an obsession to touch other people. To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart. Sometimes I think songwriting is about tightening the heartstrings as much as possible without bringing on a heart attack.

  Keith Richards

  Running, Song, Taken

  Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.193, Hachette UK

• I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

  Keith Richards

  Writing, Looks, Life Is

• I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, "I tried, I can't do it" and give up and don't try it again; they get too discouraged.

  Keith Richards

  Song, Giving Up, Believe

  "Excerpt: New book chronicles Keith Richards interviews". Interview with Whitney Matheson, www.usatoday.com. September 9, 2013.

• Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'

  Keith Richards

  Song, Art, Writing

• We do what we want to do. We write songs. We try not to repeat ourselves too much. We have our own sound and our own way of doing things. Up until now it has always been enjoyable. None of the members have ever got to the point where they don't want to be involved in it ... It's not entirely possible for me to stand back and look at the Rolling Stones because being a part of it you can't. I wish that I could just sit in the audience for one night and see the show. Everyone in the band has said that at some point. But then you wouldn't be seeing the whole band. And that's the problem with that.

  Keith Richards

  Song, Writing, Night

  "The Rolling Stones: a career in quotes" by Steve Turner, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2013.

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