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You never know what your next dig is going to find.
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It's like everyone I have dinner with, I'm having an affair with. Who was it I met the other day? Minnie Driver! She seems charming, but that's the only time I've met her.
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Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.
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If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.
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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.
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You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.
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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.
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Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
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It's hard to believe that you did so many drugs for so long. That's what I find really hard. And didn't really consider it. It was eating and drinking and taking drugs and having sex. It was just part of life.
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I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
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There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.
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You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.
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If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.
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The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues...
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I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.
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Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.
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I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.
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I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.
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I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues-the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again.
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It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.
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Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.
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I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren't as bad as they seem.