Keith Richards Quotes:
Ocupation: Musician
Life: b. December 18, 1943
Birthday: December 18
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.
source: Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.193, Hachette UK
topic: Running, Song, Taken, Heartstrings
