The Rolling Stones Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I don't find it easy dealing with people with drug problems. It helps if you're all taking drugs, all the same drugs.
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Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.
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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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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 was number one on the Who's Likely To Die list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list.
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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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John Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.
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I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
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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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They're so boring. They're so pathetic, all those journalists. Most of them are. Most of those kind that write gossip stuff, and most of it's gossip. Things are just invented about your personal life and you just have to take that. It's bullshit. People believe it, though. They just believe everything they read.
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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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Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.
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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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What is life but playing with time?
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I don't only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn't want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.
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Treat each guitar track-and each song-completely different. For example, if I'm using a certain amp and guitar on one track, I'll deliberately use something else for the next tune or overdub.
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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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You can't be jealous and be a leader.
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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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All of us can't wait to get out there whatever way.
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I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician.
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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.