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I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.
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I always want to rock.
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To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.
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We always work at least a month to six weeks before we go on the road, usually for something like eight to 12 hours a night. It took six weeks to do it this time. We just play virtually everything we know.
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But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
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Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
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I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played...
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I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.
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There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.
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I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.
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I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.
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Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.
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I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.
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This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!
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You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't.
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With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
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I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.
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The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
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If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive.
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Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.
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I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.