Stones Quotes
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Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested about corporate infiltration of music. They said, 'We'll do the interview if you give us a million dollars of cash in a suitcase.' Which was their way of saying no.
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Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. Minds innocent and quiet take that for a hermitage: If I have freedom in my love, and in my Soul I am free, Angels alone, that soar above, enjoy such liberty.
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Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.
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Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.
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When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!
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The Atlanta Hawks are a bunch of guys who would prefer to pass kidney stones than pass a basketball.
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Lay me down, Let the only sound, Be the overflow, Pockets full of stones.
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The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain.
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I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.
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A stone that looks satisfied with its position reflects the sense of ease the waller felt when placing it there.
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Every time you read something about Rolling Stones it always mentions their age and how long can they go on? I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and roll, I guess because it originally started out to be a teenage rebellion.
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I've seen the Stones play for three hours, and the crowd knew every song. It's what you want in a headline slot at a festival.
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God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.
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Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.
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Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.
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We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.
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No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.
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If the nation only knew their hands dripped with innocent blood, it would have met them not with applause but with stones.
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I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music.
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Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.
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A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.
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There's a belief that wherever your Ancestors took shape from the sticks and stones that formed them, that's home. Ancestors from the coast leave their mark, Ancestors from the mountains, from the desert, they all leave their mark on the genes. When you come home, the genes rejoice.
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In the end, it is not the stones that matter, but the people who dwell within them.
