I’ve always been suspicious of TV, I’ve always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

Richards is voicing a long-standing rock musician’s skepticism toward television and the visual packaging of music. The first clause frames TV as a medium he distrusts—often associated with commercialization, simplification, and distraction. The second clause sharpens the point: pairing music with video can feel like a forced union in which images dictate how listeners should feel, narrowing the imaginative space that purely auditory music leaves open. Implicitly, he defends music’s autonomy and the primacy of live performance or listening without a prescribed visual narrative, a stance consistent with an older rock ethos wary of MTV-era image-making.