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Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
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Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I can't get out of it. It fascinates me. I like to point out the rawer points of life.
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The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.
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I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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I don't believe in astrology. It's a lot of crap. I just think that's another thing you should throw out the window. Mysticism. Cheap. It's amazing that people still hang on to that after all these years.
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You see a guy who is around 6'5, 290 lbs. on a Division I team. You might see a guy is an inch smaller, and who weighs the same. There is not too much of a difference.
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One goal on nine shots is not bad, but that should be your first period, not your whole game.
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Have I turned into a motorized preacher? We spend so much time in cars that if you don't try to get some experiences out of it, you can go crazy.
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I'm a Gemini, so I have a great time with the other guy.
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We've had such robust economic indicators over the past few months that today's report was really regarded as a sign of relief.
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You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.
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It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.
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And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.
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I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.
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Amazing, the poisons I used to put in my body. I used to love it.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.
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There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend, for all I know. And so whenever you pick up the guitar it's not so much the sound of the instrument itself, it's like the ting that you add onto it-the attitude.
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What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up.
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A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear it that way. I'm not a songwriter.
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We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
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Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.
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I think it speaks volumes for not only our soccer program at Hilton Head High, but student athletes at Hilton Head High. That they're definitely concerned with in-the-classroom performance as well as on-the-field performance.