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"His style and sound have pretty much defined what The Rolling Stones are, at least from 'Beggars Banquet' onwards. It's a very rough sound with a real cutting edge, and it's a style that draws on the Mississippi blues and on Chuck Berry, of course. His rhythm playing is very distinctive. Listen to the start of 'Honky Tonk Women' or 'Brown Sugar'. That's the essence of Keith."
"He can be completely narrow-minded and bigoted"
- Mick Jagger
(Uncut 80)
"Keith....really was cool, ice cool, always. He hasn't changed at all, he's become more and more strange looking and developed this grand desperado carapace, but inside, Keith is not unlike his twenty-two year-old self."
- Mick Taylor
(Uncut 80)
- Marianne Faithfull
(Faithfull)
"Keith has that air of danger. He's the total outlaw. He epitomises the alternative lifestyle. He doesn't give a fuck, which is why he's never had to reinvent himself. He's timeless and eternal and there's a deep sense of humanity about him."
- Chrissie Hynde
(Uncut 80)
"Keith is the easiest person in the world to play with, and I've never wanted to play rock 'n' roll with anyone else. He's got a wonderful sense of timing. He's one of the best rhythm guitarists ever. And he's the greatest Chuck Berry player. That's the sound Keith really loves."
"Keith is a great producer, he can coax a rabbit out of a cocked hat."
- Marianne Faithfull
(Faithfull)
- Charlie Watts
"The funny thing about Keith is that even though he may be out of his brain, he still knows what the fuck he's doing all the time. Although on stage he'll start the wrong song. It's usually any song with 'rock' in it - it could be 'If You Can't Rock Me', 'It's Only Rock 'n' Roll or 'Rocks Off' or any one of a number of others. The rest of the band is preparing to start one song and Keith will go off on another one and I haven't got the wah-wah pedal or I've got the wrong guitar. But he doesn't do it every night. It only happens every other night! He still plays great even when he's out of it."
(Uncut 80)
"It's like when I met Keith Richards, you try to match them drink for drink, but you're a novice, you're a child. You're drinking with a roaring pirate. Whatever you know about holding your liquor you'd better let go of it right now. So I thought I could hang in there but I wasn't able to hang in there."
- Ronnie Wood
(Uncut 80)
- Tom Waits
(Rain Dogs list)
"He (Keith) was the epitome of my ideal of the tortured Byronic soul, it was quite clear even then that he was a genius."
- Marianne Faithfull
(Faithfull)
"They think, you know, Keith Richards, oh yeah the 70s and the drugs and this and that. He's just burned out .... but he's not at all. He's one of the brightest, most well-read people I've ever met in my life - he's like an encyclopedia for historical events. He's so well read, it's shocking."
- Johnny Depp
(Uncut 80)
"There's this thing in the Stones that we call 'Keith time', which comes from his drug period. You could wait days for him to turn up. Nobody really complained because that's the way he was."
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