Keith, December 1965.
“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, Life.
Keith + Scarf.
Nine Favourites Photos, Keith Richards.
“Keith was constantly making me mix tapes, and he would do beautiful drawings on them,” Hansen says of their courtship. “That was his method of communication.” He created collages with pictures of her from magazines, Polaroids, and notes written in his own blood. “It looks disgusting when it dries, but he loves the color red,” she deadpans. How would he get the blood? “Maybe he cut himself shaving?” she teases, then grimaces. “Or picked a scab?” She has kept these mementos. “I have everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I’ve saved everything.”
- Patti Hansen
Keith Richards by Kazumi Kurigami 1988
KEITH RICHARDS (1979)
Keith Richards on stage, 1982.
Requested by Sarah.
