Rolling Stones Quotes

• You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

  Keith Richards

  Moon, Rolling, Stones

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  You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

  Mick Jagger

  Desire, Trying, Needs

  FaceBook post by Mick Jagger from Jun 15, 2012

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• The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.

  Bob Dylan

  Rap, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 13, 2009.

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• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

  Oliver Herford

  Deep Thought, Moss, Rolling

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  When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

  Keith Richards

  Inspirational, God, Growing Up

  "Life". Book by Keith Richards and James Fox, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2010.

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• There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.

  Keith Richards

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick... If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.

  Alice Cooper

  Running, Stars, Reading

  "Rock is on a roll with politics" by Warren Kinsella, September 12, 2004.

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• If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.

  Chris Cornell

  Kids, Black, Rolling

  "Chris Cornell: 'As a performer, I'm able to do what I want'" by Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.

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• There is something I like about talking to journalists that really goes beyond promotion because you aren't just talking to the journalist, but you are talking through them to people who presumably are fans of the Rolling Stones. The interviews give you a chance to say a few things and maybe clear up some of the things people read about the band.

  Mick Jagger

  Talking, Giving, People

  "Pop Music : 10 Questions : Mick Jagger". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. March 31, 1991.

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• Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

  John Burroughs

  Travel, Men, Moss

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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.

  Kate Pierson

  Teenage, Thinking, Rocks

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• I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.

  Bill Wyman

  Kings, Work, Rolling

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• Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -David Richo A rolling stone can gather no moss

  Publilius Syrus

  Change, Mean, Humility

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• I wanted to be in Rolling Stone number two with a tomorrow feel to it, like an experimental Rolling Stones with Jagger singing.

  Jeff Beck

  Two, Numbers, Singing

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• You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid forms of music and hybrid forms of show, if you draw from many, many different wells. It's just unfortunate so many rock'n'roll stars only bother to learn how to play like Led Zeppelin and/or the Rolling Stones and that's what you get, disc after disc and show after show.

  David Lee Roth

  Stars, Rocks, Play

  "David Lee Roth: Outrageous or normal?". Patrick McDonald, The Advertiser, October 13, 1988.

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• Rolling Stone hates me. They must have an editorial policy to do me in for many years.

  Joni Mitchell

  Hate, Years, Rolling

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• They got love bigger than the Beatles, wild and free like the Rolling Stones.

  Joe Diffie

  Wild And Free, Rolling, Stones

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• Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Summer, Love You, August

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

  Mick Jagger

  Stupid, Singing, Complaining

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One day, I remember it was in television. I was a fan of the Rolling Stones. One of the members, the guitarist, had died from an overdose of drugs. I cried tears – my model had died. After this, an exciting new group, the Radha Krishna Temple, came on and sang the Hare Krishna mantra. I immediately felt deep solace.

  Sacinandana Swami

  Drug, Tears, One Day

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• I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back on as to how do you write about this kind of music, so people were trying absolutely everything with a great sense of freedom and experimentation and success and failure, and a feeling of, “My God, people are actually paying attention to this. Let’s pretend they aren’t because we don’t want to be intimidated by what somebody might think of what we’re saying.

  Greil Marcus

  Fall, Writing, Thinking

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• I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

  Benmont Tench

  Couple, Play, Special

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• The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the Beatles especially, and then the Rolling Stones and other forms of music, and then fashion and photography and films - kitchen-sink dramas we called them at that time, which was our nouvelle vague in Britain, films that talk about real life.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Photography, Fashion, Drama

  Interview with Zoë Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.

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• Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.

  Nat Hentoff

  New York, Stars, Kids

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I guess I haven't talked to Bob Dylan since before then [interview to Rolling Stones]. I follow his career.

  Nat Hentoff

  Careers, Bob, Stones

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