Ronnie Wood Quotes
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I can't go along with all that shit about having to give everything up. I'd always say to them in the clinic I'm still going to have a Guinness, I'm still going to have a glass of wine. They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.
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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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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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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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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 find it hard to get old and hard to say, 'No.'
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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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All my life there's always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend.
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With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before.
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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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In my family, they were all big boozers, but they all lived to ripe old ages.
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What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.
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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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I'm terrible with money, absolutely awful. I'm always losing it.
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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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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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When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.
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Married life is absolutely brilliant.
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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.
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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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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.