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Taking drugs on a recreation level is one thing. But taking them while you're working on a stage is, I don't think it was that great. It's the control factor. And the thing about being on stage, you really want to feel that you're sort of in control a lot. It's not a place where you want to be out of control.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
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.
Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones -
I used to play Saturday night shows with different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. I used to do mad things - I used to go and do these shows and go on my knees and roll on the ground - when I was 15,16 years old. And my parents were extremely disapproving of it all. Because it was just not done. This was for very low-class people, remember. Rock & roll singers weren't educated people.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
I haven't stopped smoking...anything...
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
I'm terrible with money, absolutely awful. I'm always losing it.
Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
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Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man.
Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones -
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.
Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones -
The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip!
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It's really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
I don't think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It's not necessarily some state of grace.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
You have to realize that everyone in a band is all more or less together, and everyone has their own niche, and some people lead in some ways, and some people lead in others.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.
Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones -
All of us can't wait to get out there whatever way.
Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones -
You don't make solo albums to have hits.
Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones