Rolling Stones Quotes - Page 8

• While the Beatles always had George Martin around to clean up their act, the Rolling Stones had Andrew Loog Oldham to coarsen theirs.

  Jon Landau

  Rolling, Stones, Clean

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• The Faces do not, as some have recently alleged, play badly. They are more than competent, especially at creating a mid-Sixties Rolling Stones-styled groove, as their excellent version of 'Memphis' proves.

  Jon Landau

  Play, Creating, 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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• I think a band - even a band that's been around as long as the Rolling Stones - I think that's still the formula. You know you're gonna get those songs, and you don't mind sitting through the ones that you maybe don't know very well because you know they're not gonna let you down - they're not gonna mess with you. And I kind of feel the same way about the way I structure my shows.

  DJ Shadow

  Song, Thinking, Long

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I've always said that if you want to find out what's going on in Iraq or Afghanistan or Libya, I'll give you a choice. You can either read The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, or you can go to the NATO, ISAF, multi-national force websites where they have their own news releases. Who will give you a more accurate picture? I'll take the mainstream media.

  Michael Hastings

  Wall, Giving, Choices

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Any time having international interviews is a language barrier, you don't know how much you need to simplify what you're saying for it not to be damaged in translation. But culturally, there are some interesting phenomena. I get the feeling that the way rock music gets described in Germany, it is all like Rolling Stone circa 1975, taken to the 10th power. If you're a rock musician, you're part of the counterculture. Your music is like a critique of everything that is wrong with America.

  John Flansburgh

  Taken, Interesting, Feelings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.

  George Ade

  Moss, Rolling, Stones

  George Ade (1960). “The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays”, New York, Putnam [1960]

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• That really sums up the strange bluntness that a really prime German interview can have. They're really interested in your cultural velocity in this way that I don't think people in the United States even necessarily think about alternative-rock bands. So it's not like we're against regular rock. We're not like a battling army shaking our weapons against The Rolling Stones.

  John Flansburgh

  Army, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• No matter what Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious do, they can't be more disgusting than The Rolling Stones are in an orgy of biting.

  Mick Jagger

  Disgusting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's a lot of music that we've never heard before. It's not like we're just pulling out December's Children by The Rolling Stones and listening to that again and again. We are listening to things we've never heard, but they do tend to be from the past.

  Ira Kaplan

  Children, Past, Listening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like that.

  Bucky Pope

  Rolling, Stones, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Crazy, Character, Rolling

  "Fear of Music". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Even somebody like Bill Clinton, who I happen to admire very much, the second he was out of office, I remember, he was interview in Rolling Stone and he said he thought we should have legalized marijuana. And I thought, gosh, if only you were in some sort of position to affect change in the last eight years where you could have done something about that.

  Bill Maher

  Marijuana, Should Have, Years

  "Comedian Bill Maher Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 16, 2011.

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• Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.

  Alison Krauss

  Growing Up, Perfect, Rolling

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• I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.

  Ike Turner

  Real, Men, Hip Hop

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• There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin?

  Lars von Trier

  Expression, Creative, Drug

  "Lars von Trier: I was addicted to drugs and alcohol" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2014.

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• Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones.

  Moby

  Summer, Art, Rolling

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted a real band. I wanted the Rolling Stones, the Beatles.

  Christopher Owens

  Real, Rolling, Band

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2012.

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• The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.

  John Heywood

  Rolling, Stones

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.431

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• I like The Beatles and I like The Kinks and I like The Rolling Stones and I like Led Zeppelin and I like Black Sabbath.

  Rachel Trachtenburg

  Black, Rolling, Zeppelins

  The New Yorker, September 09, 2002.

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• I would make a comic for Rolling Stone every two weeks, because they're biweekly. And then I would make weekly comics for my weekly papers. It was on two parallel tracks. And then they all got collected in a book.

  David Rees

  Book, Two, Track

  Source: therumpus.net

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