Ronnie Wood Quotes
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We're great, Jo and me. We're pals, and I guess sex has a lot to do with it. She's also brilliant at clearing a room. So protective, so devoted. I can't believe how much she loves me.
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My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.
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I can't be left unsupervised.
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When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!
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Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.
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I used to worry, 'I've lost my family.' They hated me for a while, but they're very resilient.
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I'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me!
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All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals.
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I find it hard to get old and hard to say, 'No.'
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During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, "Hang on a minute - I can paint." I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.
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Married life is absolutely brilliant.
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All my life there's always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend.
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What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.
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In my family, they were all big boozers, but they all lived to ripe old ages.
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With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before.
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I'm terrible with money, absolutely awful. I'm always losing it.
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I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.
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We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.
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Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.
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When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man.
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When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.
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I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now.
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The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.
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The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was... good.