The Rolling Stones Quotes
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The public library is the great equaliser.
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I don't know if people in New York recognize me or not. I'm not really conscious of it. If somebody stops me, then I suddenly realize that people are looking at me, but other times they may be doing it and I don't even know because I'm engrossed in something else.
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It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.
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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.
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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.
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All of us can't wait to get out there whatever way.
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Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, "I tried, I can't do it" and give up and don't try it again; they get too discouraged.
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Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.
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You're sitting with some guys, and you're playing and you go, "Ooh, yeah!" That feeling is worth more than anything. There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. You're elevated because you're with a bunch of guys that want to do the same thing as you. And when it works, baby, you've got wings. You know you've been somewhere most people will never get; you've been to a special place.
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John Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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You can't be jealous and be a leader.
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I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don't see it as an immediate problem.
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Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.
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If you're really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first.
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I never sleep alone. If there is no one to sleep next to, I'll sleep next to a stuffed animal. It makes me feel secure and safe. It's a little embarrassing to admit it; I'm an old man now. It's important to me though.
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You don't make solo albums to have hits.
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You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to behave.
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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.
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If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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I have to get up the fitness level, sing a lot, practice, get in the mood, and generally do lots of rehearsal. Get your body and mind ready.
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Lets drink to the hard working people Lets drink to the salt of the earth.
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When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.