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Quotes
If the band's slightly lacking in energy, it's because we spent all last night fucking. We do our best!
- Mick 1979
To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the
reason I'm still alive
- Keith
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air to breathe - and you've got The Rolling Stones!
- Keith 1995
Hope ya didn't have to pay a lot for tickets, I didn't have to pay much
- Mick 1978
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do
- Keith
I don't think anything about them. Personally, I don't think he should think anything about them either
- Keith (about Mick's solo albums)
Ronnie's a great mixture of talent and bullshit
- Keith
Hillary Clinton, gimme a blowjob
- Mick 1993
God forbid they should ever get around to making a Stones movie! I certainly wouldn't want to watch it. I hope I'm
dead and gone by then. Never mind Mick and I. Who'd play Charlie?
- Keith
It's Charlie Watts' band - without him we wouldn't have a group
- Keith
Five strings, three notes, two fingers, an asshole, and you've got it!
- Keith
I figure, if you can get five or six guys to work together in perfect harmony, it is quite possible that the whole
world could
- Keith
Like I said many years ago, I've never had a problem with drugs, only with cops
- Keith
Why have Mick and I stayed together all this time? Well, we do so somewhat reluctantly
- Keith
Bill's this very noncommittal guy, which is why I can't talk to him on the phone. Charlie said maybe we could threaten
to replace him with a chick maybe that will do the trick
- Keith 1992
Keith is the sort of guy you should leave alone. He's the classic naughty boy. He's the sort of guy I knew at school
who hated the head boy. And I love Keith because of that
- Charlie
Music, to me, is the joy, right? I love my kids most of the time, and I love my wife most of the time. Music I love
all the time. It's the only constant thing in my life. It's the one thing you can count on
- Keith
I'm tired of being number one in the naughty boys drug poll. It's time they picked on somebody else
- Keith
Because we couldn't remember their fucking names
- Keith (when asked why the new album was called Some Girls)
At first you got the impression that Keith was just trailing around with Mick. The first fifteen minutes he was
trailing around but it didn't take any longer to realize Keith wasn't trailing around at all. He just happened to be
quieter
- Alexis Korner
He's still in love with his music, and literally the lines dissappear from his face when he picks up that guitar
- Bono (about Keith)
I got news for you. We're still a bunch of tough bastards. String us up and we still won't die
- Keith 1994
Rock and roll - it's like a heart machine, it's gotta' go up and down - otherwise, you're dead, you know
- Keith
I was looking for Leonardo da Vinci's book on anatomy. I learned a lot about anatomy but didn't find the book
- Keith
White drummers don't swing, except for Charlie Watts
- Keith
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet
- Keith
Sometimes an orgasm is better than being onstage. Sometimes being onstage is better than an orgasm
- Mick
It does get boring people asking me, 'Is this the last Stones tour?' They been asking that since 1964
- Mick 1976
True friendship is being able to bash someone over the head and not be told, you're not my friend anymore
- Keith 1981
At some point in the show you just lose it. You should let yourself go, I mean, have those moments when you really
are quite out of your brain
- Mick
We worked our asses off non stop. In three years, at the start, I believe we had two weeks off. I tell that to BB King
and he'll say - that's nothing I've been doing it for years
- Keith
I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45
- Mick
People have this obsession; They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth
goes with you, you know
- Mick
I think it's a lot of hype. I like 'Honky Tonk Woman' but I think Mick is a joke with all that fag dancing
- John Lennon
Getting older is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get
- Keith
Come to think of it, maybe the reason why the Stones are still going is because we've always been aware of what's going
to be influenced but not so that we slavishly follow trends
- Mick 1974
Keith Richards is the original punk rocker. You can't really out-punk keith - it's a useless gesture
- Mick
Mick was able to deal with success - that was the virtue that saved him... Success wrecked Andrew Oldham, and it
wrecked Brian Jones, and it made a wreck out of Keith Richards although somehow he kept staggering to his feet,
like a punch-drunk prizefighter who refuses to get knocked out
- Chris Jagger
Rock'n'roll is only any good when you're confident about it. Hesitate and you're lost, especially on stage
- Keith
We never did anything consciously to shock people. All we did was answer the call of nature
-Keith
Guys, whatever you do, don't grow up gracefully
- Pete Townshend (to the Stones)
I'll be playing rock in a wheelchair. It's what I do for a living
- Keith
It was reported today that Mick Jagger has moved back in with Jerry Hall just so he can be near his children.
Then someone pointed out that Mick can live anywhere and be near his children.
- Conan O'Brien
Beauty is only skin deep, underneath we all look the same, it's blood and bones.
- Keith