Rolling Stones Quotes - Page 7

• But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story.

  Bob Gaudio

  Rolling, Stories, Stones

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• The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

  Andrew Loog Oldham

  Important, Rolling, Looks

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• Kylie Minogue - she's so great. You'd love her if you met her. Everyone would. In a way I wish everyone could, to see what a person she is. She's so sweet and no bull and really funny, man, really funny. The Rolling Stones are like a weight around your neck. All that..'you're not meant to rock after you're 30...you've got to die in a car crash or of a drug overdose.

  Michael Hutchence

  Sweet, Men, Rocks

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• That's the choice they allow you - now the outlet is being a pop star, which is really what I'm saying on the album in 'Working class hero'. As I told Rolling Stone, it's the same people who have the power, the class system didn't change one little bit.

  John Lennon

  Stars, Hero, Class

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.

  Henry Rollins

  Lying, Thinking, Years

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• The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm.

  Jim Carrey

  Bird, Moss, Rolling

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• I know, when I look into the eyes of my own children, the look of wonder when I speak of life back in the '60s. That's why the Rolling Stones are such a hit even in their 60s, why Dennis Hopper is so compelling, even when he's making pitches for something unhip as long-term financial planning.

  Chris Matthews

  Children, Eye, Long

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I've grown fonder for Hillary Clinton since she ran for the presidency. I think that it's emblematic of the Rolling Stones song, you can't always get what you want, i.e., the grail. Sometimes you get what you need. And whatever she's gotten over the last couple of years, being humbled or be it being humbled and see the proletariat come to bat for her, getting outside of the bubble, getting out of this man's shadow, not quite getting the job she wants but a great wonk job.

  Dennis Miller

  Song, Jobs, Couple

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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 [Bob] Dylan sessions were very disorganized, to say the least. I mean, the "Like A Rolling Stone" session I was invited by the producer to watch.

  Al Kooper

  Mean, Rolling, Watches

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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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• 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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• 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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• So Bach, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, these are all people who would sort of rearrange or take riffs from people. Same thing with rock, if you look at the Rolling Stones doing a cover of Otis Redding or you know if you look at literature James Joyce is pulling fragments of text from other people.

  DJ Spooky

  Rocks, People, Rolling

  "Big Think Interview With DJ Spooky". bigthink.com. April 08, 2010.

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• I was working as a staff writer at Rolling Stone. I had a friend who worked at MTV, and she called me and said, "They're looking for VJs for this new channel. Do you want to try out?" I had zero TV experience, but I thought, "Well, what the hay."

  Jancee Dunn

  Zero, Mtv, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• I wondered how I was going to do it and keep my job at Rolling Stone at the same time. They were very nice, and they let me disappear for two days a week for a couple of hours. That's how long shooting was.

  Jancee Dunn

  Jobs, Couple, Nice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy.

  Christina Aguilera

  Successful, People, Energy

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• I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

  Dave Barry

  War, Fans, Rolling

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.123, Ballantine Books

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• I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.

  Hugh Jackman

  Sympathy, Devil, Rolling

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• At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Cameras, Rolling, Stones

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• When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Rolling, Stones

  "Annie Leibovitz Puts Down Camera, Talks". Interview with Dave Weich, www.powells.com. November 1999.

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• It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it." "What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?"

  Joe Hill

  Want, Needs, Keith

  Joe Hill (2010). “Horns”, p.210, Hachette UK

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• We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

  Phil Knight

  Sports, Nike, Knights

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• There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in rehearsed snarls; their hair studiously unkempt and matted; their clothes part of some private conceit; and the way they walk and talk and the songs they sing all become part of some long mean reach for the jugular.

  Pete Hamill

  Song, Mean, Hair

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