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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...
Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones -
When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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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.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
It's okay to let yourself go, just as long as you let yourself back.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
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.
Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones -
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.
Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
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You never know what your next dig is going to find.
Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones -
You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
We'll rock till we drop. We have all agreed this won't be the last time. Everyone's rocking.
Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones -
You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
I think it's an awful drink, to be honest with you.
Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones -
I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.
Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
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When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck Berry...
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.
Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones -
The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.
Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones -
I didn't want to make teenage comedies, and I didn't want to make really trashy films. I wanted to make films that were a bit challenging.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.
Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones -
There's not many Americans, certainly not many of the teenagers I met when I first went to America, knew anything about blues musicians at all. … They do now, which is very groovy.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones -
I don't want to be a rock star all my life.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.
Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones