The Rolling Stones Quotes
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money...
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You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
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I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, "Well, I can do this." And I liked doing it.
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I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.
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George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.
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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'm interested in feedback and learning what people want. It's a tricky thing for me when I do a set list. You get bored doing the same songs. Let's say we do one ballad in two hours, and it's "Wild Horses." If you say, I'm tired of that, let's try something less well known, and then you're out there stumbling through this song you just relearned at sound check, and you realize people probably want "Wild Horses" instead of this. You do need to do some songs that aren't so well known. The question is how many? I'm open to people posting their requests.
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I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.
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Rock has to absorb other rhythmic forms, because the underlying rhythm of music changes with fashion, and people like to move differently, and the underlying rhythms have to be the ones that people want to dance to.
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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.
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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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One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.
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Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.
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My life is full of broken halos.
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I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.
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I think it's very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don't talk about. That's why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.
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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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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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The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
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I'm not the businessman. I don't deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I've run out of money, I have to go and make some more.
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Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.