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It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.
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People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!
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Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that.
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When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.
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I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
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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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I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.
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No one, but no one, is equal, or ever will be. Elvis was and is supreme.
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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.
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I have a life coach out with me on tour, a very nice guy from L.A. He just prepares me for each day.
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The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.
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When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck Berry...
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When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.
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Rap - so many words, so little said. What rap did that was impressive was to show there are so many tone-deaf people out there. All they need is a drum beat and somebody yelling over it and they're happy. There’s an enormous market for people who can't tell one note from another.
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People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud.
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Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.
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I can't really sing and play live, because I can't play bass efficiently and sing at the same time. If I concentrated on the vocals, I'd mess up the bass, and if I concentrated on the bass, I'd forget the lines.
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.
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The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique...
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We'll rock till we drop. We have all agreed this won't be the last time. Everyone's rocking.
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I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
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I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.
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I don't want to be a rock star all my life.
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It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing