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I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
The Loch Ness monster doesn't exist either. Loch Ness is just not big enough to hide a thirty foot amphibian or reptile for hundreds of years.
Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
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The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones -
Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
I thought it was ludicrous to take one of those gongs from the establishment...it's not what the Stones is about, is it? I don't want to step out on stage with someone wearing a fucking coronet and sporting the old ermine. I told Mick, It's a fucking paltry honour.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
All dancing is a replacement for sex.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
Most guys I know are assholes. I have some great asshole friends, but that's not the point. Friendship has got nothing to do with that. It's can you hang, can you talk about this without any feeling of distance between you? Friendship is the diminishing of distance between people. That's what friendship is, and to me it's one of the most important things in the world.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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We do what we want to do. We write songs. We try not to repeat ourselves too much. We have our own sound and our own way of doing things. Up until now it has always been enjoyable. None of the members have ever got to the point where they don't want to be involved in it ... It's not entirely possible for me to stand back and look at the Rolling Stones because being a part of it you can't. I wish that I could just sit in the audience for one night and see the show. Everyone in the band has said that at some point. But then you wouldn't be seeing the whole band. And that's the problem with that.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.
Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones -
I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.
Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones -
I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
I certainly want to get back to the US to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida.
Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones
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It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released...
Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones -
I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he's gonna do tomorrow and I'm just happy to wake up to see who's hanging around. Mick's rock and I'm roll.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
I was having a bit of trouble. I wasn't in a good relationship. Or I was in too many bad relationships. I had so many girlfriends at that point. None of them seemed to care they weren't pleasing me very much. I was obviously in with the wrong group.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
I don't know if rock is dying. I wouldn't want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones