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To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.
You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.
Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money
Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal
If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't.
Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.
You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.
To me, life is a wild animal. You hope to deal with it when it leaps at you.
You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.
It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.
One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience
I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.
I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!
Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.
I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.
Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.
It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.
Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know?
Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.
A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
I only get ill when I give up drugs... I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners.
Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.
Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere.
Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.
I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.
You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.
There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!
Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn't die of an overdose, he died of fame.
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab
When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.
We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.
My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other
I was number 1 on the who's likely to die list for 10 years...I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.