The Rolling Stones Quotes
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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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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.
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We went out (on Tuesday) and made it like a Wednesday practice. If it's not moved, we'll have Wednesday's practice again, but if a lot of the other teams are starting to (move), I would probably say that we'll follow suit.
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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
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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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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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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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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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I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.
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Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the time. It's not something that suddenly you do it. It's always there. Suddenly, it's in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you're writing on the piano or a guitar, you don't write in lyrics, on their own. To me it's very boring.
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I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.
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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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I'm a Gemini, so I have a great time with the other guy.
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What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up.
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If you're gonna get wasted, get wasted elegantly.
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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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What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people’s hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or at least get a resonance, where other people become a bigger instrument than the one you’re playing. It becomes almost an obsession to touch other people. To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart. Sometimes I think songwriting is about tightening the heartstrings as much as possible without bringing on a heart attack.
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I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.
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The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed...
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I just tried to keep from not turning the ball over and in getting the ball to our playmakers. I don't care about all of the other accolades. Not winning any awards took the pressure off of me. I just wanted to do my part to win this for the guys.
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When we heard we were topping the bill over James Brown we couldn't believe it. We tried for two days to get it changed round - I mean you can't follow an act like that.
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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 think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there's nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don't produce as good things as you could.