Rolling Stones Quotes - Page 6

• You can’t always get what you want. But, if you’re lucky, you get what you need.

  Justin Bieber

  Trying, Lucky, Needs

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• You can't always get what you want.

  Mick Jagger

  Graduation, Encouraging, Trying

  "Song: 'You Can't Always Get What You Want'". 1969.

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• The Rolling Stones suffered a great loss with the death of Ian Stewart, the man who had for so many years played piano quietly and silently with them on stage.

  Andy Peebles

  Funny, Loss, Men

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• The only thing I use the Rolling Stone for is toilet paper when I run out.

  Neal Schon

  Running, Paper, Toilets

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• Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

  Britney Spears

  Sexy, Mean, Naughty

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• When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.

  Charlie Watts

  Sex, Thinking, Rocks

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• It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.

  Alice Cooper

  People, Groups, This Generation

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• What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.

  Ralph Steadman

  Moving, Drawing, Twenties

  "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.

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• Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock.

  Evan Harris

  Rocks, Moss, Rolling

  Evan Harris (1996). “The Quit”, Fireside

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• These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.

  Diablo Cody

  Rolling, Stones, These Days

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• My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay $25 for a cotton T-shirt that says 'Rolling Stones,' 'Lollapalooza,' or whatever. On the outside they're 10 or 15 bucks. We were the guys selling them for 10 or 15 bucks.

  Kevin Plank

  Real, Kids, Guy

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• I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

  Diablo Cody

  Hipster, Writing, Rocks

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• Internet radio stations like KCRW do take you everywhere, yet thats just one of a hundred small things you have to do to succeed. It used to be, if you just got on the cover of Rolling Stone and a spotlight on The Tonight Show, that was enough.

  Teddy Thompson

  Stones, Succeed, Rolling

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• Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.

  Diablo Cody

  Stars, Rocks, Rolling

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• Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he was honing his craft at Rolling Stone back in the day.

  Thomas Frank

  Flower, Political, Style

  "Joe Klein's Turnip Day" by Thomas Frank, observer.com. May 1, 2006.

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• We had a wonderful department that scouted out new music. It was beneficial to Rolling Stone, because I would come back and say, "You have to hear this, you have to hear that," and I found a lot of bands to feature, emerging bands. It [ended up being] symbiotic.

  Jancee Dunn

  Stones, Rolling, Band

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

  Kurt Loder

  Rocks, High Standards, Research

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• What's the big deal? I have really strong morals, and just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm a naughty girl. I'd do it again. I thought the pictures were fine. And I was tired of being compared to Debbie Gibson and all of this bubblegum pop all the time.

  Britney Spears

  Girl, Sexy, Strong

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• The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.

  Norm MacDonald

  Death, Cheating, Past

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• The very funny thing about "Like A Rolling Stone" is it was a six minute song, there was no music to read from. And there I was playing this unfamiliar instrument. So I would come in on the upbeat of one. I would wait until the band played the chord, and then as quickly as I could come in play the chord.

  Al Kooper

  Song, Funny Things, Play

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• In 1965, my father was just twirling the dial of the radio to find something that would make me go to sleep, and as soon as I heard rock and roll there was no stopping me. It was during the height of Beatlemania and the British invasion, but I gravitated toward the harder, heavier music going on then, you know, the early Rolling Stones, the good Rolling Stones, and Paul Revere and the Raiders, who don't get the credit they deserve for spearheading the American '60s garage sound.

  Jello Biafra

  Father, Sleep, Rocks

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• The Rolling Stones were an inkling towards an appreciation of the unity of music, dance and words. Any of the black R&B people who had a stage show that involved dancing, music and words did the same thing, except that I thought Jagger's words were good, his music was good and his dancing was good. I spoke to him about Blake and tried to get him to sing [William] Blake's The Grey Monk, to use his words as lyrics. He didn't do it. In the end, I did it myself.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Appreciation, Dancing, People

  "The Rolling Stones: a career in quotes" by Steve Turner, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2013.

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• My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.

  Patti Smith

  Father, Real, Rocks

  "Rocker Patti Smith, 'Dream Of Life'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 30, 2009.

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• When I started covering The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a rock 'n' roll band, it helped me realize that my natural voice is actually really high. It helped me find my voice.

  Gotye

  Voice, Rocks, Stones

  Source: www.elle.com

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• So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd.

  DJ Spooky

  Art, Rolling, Albums

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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