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Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
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A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the time. It's not something that suddenly you do it. It's always there. Suddenly, it's in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you're writing on the piano or a guitar, you don't write in lyrics, on their own. To me it's very boring.
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It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.
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You can't always get what you want.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
The public library is the great equaliser.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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What is life but playing with time?
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Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful welcome. It was a great show and we'll remember it forever.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
I don't hate journalists. You can't hate a class of people. It's wrong to say that. But I do think they're a bit like poison. Never trust them. You can't trust them as a class of people. It's their job not to be trusted.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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Movies in this country, its very complicated, and we could bang on about it forever, but the French movie industry is very different because its very obviously French.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
I love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones