KEITH RICHARDS NY Public Library (Part 1) 

Keith Richards is mysterious and inspiring to me. A few years ago when I listened to this interview, I really appreciated Keith’s thoughts about the value of libraries that he shares in the first few minutes. I had to work up his wording a little to make this message a little more understandable in writing.🤣 “It was a place where you got sort of a hint that maybe there was a thing called civilization....the only place around where I would willingly obey the rules, like ‘silence please’...it’s that sort of different space-it’s there for everybody...I still owe fines from about fifty years ago-astronomical by now, I should think...it was somewhere where I could find out things that I wanted to find out about that you weren’t necessarily being taught at school.” - Keith Richards

he plays the music i love and behaves the way a rock legend should; down to earth. Keith Richards is awesome.

Pleins de bravo et pleins de salutations a Mr Keith Richards bien a vous

I love his love of music

Thanks for the post. Keith's take on things is always so interesting.

top dog keith is i was at this show 1st row and got a signed copy of his book

Keith goes bright red 3:15. Great interview.

"I've been trying to steal his records ever since." So cool man!!! And funny!!

Love it! Love keith!

Thank you for sharing!

Grande grande grande

LOL its funny that keith has entrance music to a library... wonder what happens when he comes downstairs for dinner?

I tried to get into this but tickets were scalped too high. Saw a very frail Lou Reed outside.

Hes just speaking about th times he was brought up on keep rockn boys

Keith's comments about American music being shaped by many different cultures [immigrants ] and how much it affected his vision of the world reflects on why one race or one flower would never work and why Japan and the NAZI's attempt at world dominance would have failed even if they had won the military wars.

Man I bet he's craving a cig here lol

The force and power of BLACK American music.

Keith is more articulate with his fingers on a fretboard

A well educated Spiritual Man. Good Karma.

"sadly keef is quite ignorant of the Irish folk music that went over to the Americas hundreds of years before the blues" Early on it was more descendants of the English and enslaved Africans in the United States than anyone else. The Irish came to the U.S. a lot by about the 1820s, which is only about eighty years before black American folk musicians began singing blues songs about having the "blues." Black U.S. folk songs whose roots can be traced often have roots in England, e.g. "Crawdad Song" has roots in "Froggie Went A Courting," and the St. James infirmary that Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong sang about was in London.

Turn it over to Jesus, Keith. Åse

The library, possibly the most outdated building in every town these days. A smart phone holds more information. They've outlived their usefulness and it's time to find better uses for their funding, period.