The Rolling Stones Quotes
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Many of them have started selling their cattle crop to buy hay. If they're selling them to buy hay, they're not able to pay their other expenses.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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Too much is never enough.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole...
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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.
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Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.
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The economy is still in very good shape.
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I don't like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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Boys, as far as England was concerned, were always the hard core. And you just know the guys like it. They want to be you. Some might be attracted to you without knowing it.
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When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.
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There is something I like about talking to journalists that really goes beyond promotion because you aren't just talking to the journalist, but you are talking through them to people who presumably are fans of the Rolling Stones. The interviews give you a chance to say a few things and maybe clear up some of the things people read about the band.
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I suppose you do think about the time that's allotted to you more than when you were younger. The mortality thing obviously has a stronger pull for you. It's an imminent truth; it's not necessarily a bad thing. You realize - much earlier than my age now - that you won't be able to play for England's football team, just to take a really crass example. So you can't have that life again. Unless you believe in reincarnation or whatever. Reincarnation? That's a whole other question. I find people who talk about that sort of thing in interviews idiotic. And I don't want to go down with them.
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I'm very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people... sort of like saying, once you get married you are on the highway to heaven, and quite often it isn't that. I think marriage has always been based on a combination of religious and legal reasons.
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I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' — or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?'
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Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.
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Quite often when I record a song, writing it and making a demo is the big thing and, after that, I think, how do I actually translate this into real life? A lot of the time I think I can't be bothered.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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I don't know if rock is dying. I wouldn't want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
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As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
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Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.