Creativity Quote by Keith Richards

Spoken like a man who has spent decades flirting with the alternative. "It's good to be anywhere" lands with the offhand shrug of Keith Richards, but the shrug is the point: it turns survival into a punchline, and gratitude into something you don’t perform, you mutter. Coming from a musician whose biography is practically a folklore genre (tour buses, courtrooms, detox rumors, the persistent myth of indestructibility), the line reads as dark-comic damage control and a quiet confession at once.

The intent is disarmingly simple: be present, be alive, keep moving. Richards doesn’t say "It’s good to be here", because "here" implies stability, a home base, a settled self. "Anywhere" is a road word. It fits a life built around motion and improvisation, where the stage changes nightly and time is measured in cities, not seasons. It also sidesteps sentimentality. He isn’t offering an inspirational poster; he’s offering a veteran’s aside from the edge of the map.

Subtext: the bar has been lowered by experience. When you’ve watched friends burn out, when your own body has been treated like a test site, location becomes secondary to continuation. There’s also a punky rebuke to preciousness - the idea that the right place, the right vibe, the perfect conditions are required to feel okay. Richards’ whole persona argues the opposite: you make do, you play through, you find a pocket even in chaos.

In the larger cultural context of rock, it’s an anti-triumphalist credo. Not "I made it", just "I’m still in it". That’s why it works. It’s defiance disguised as casualness.