I’ve never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style – as did The Beatles and the Stones – and I enjoyed projecting that. Image, attitude, great music and great lyrics – that was the ’60s.
The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the view of the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, rockets are equal to stones.
Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
I’ve been ripping the Rolling Stones off with every song I write in some form or another.
The mainstream media tend to lump everything together. To them, there’s no difference between Madonna, the Rolling Stones, or whatever.
I think of the Avengers as The Beatles, and the Guardians are the Rolling Stones. That is really how I feel about the groups.
N.W.A had something in common with the Rolling Stones and MC5 and groups like that: the voice of rebellion. It’s rebellion against your parents. It’s rebellion against the system. It’s rebellion against society.
Basically, I like anything with guts – Lead Belly, Bill Big Broonzy, Johnny Winter, the Stones.
I grew up under the sticks and stones rule. I didn’t put my hands on you so why should you put your hands on me or my family.
If you look in my CD case, you’ll see it’s Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, now I can’t think of anyone else, but all that stuff.
I never tried to emulate The Beatles, and I never really wanted to be like The Rolling Stones. I never really felt that I had the look or the demeanor of veteran musicians.
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.
If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them – not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
I love in the Old Testament where they talk about Ebenezer so much… stones to remembrance. And it’s like there’s constant stones of remembrance of what God has done.
I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
I am really into ’70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.
The only difference between The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, and Chubby Checker is that they get their music played on the radio.
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked ‘release of frustration.’
I was a big fan of the Rain Parade, Green on Red, X, the Rolling Stones.
I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.
I know Mick Jagger wouldn’t tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.
People love to throw stones at me, and I get it. It’s fun to make fun of me, because I put myself out there. I’m a large personality, and I got the funny bone; I voice my opinion, and then people get upset.
I remember watching World’s Strongest Man as a kid, and I was just obsessed with it. At sort of five, six years old. Just watching these huge guys lift planes, pulls trains, lift stones – I was just mesmerised by it.
The Beatles were from Liverpool. It’s a hard town. The Stones weren’t the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men.
Rolling Stones came later for me. I was a Beatles guy. All of us were pretty much more along the lines of Beatles guys than we were Stones or Elvis.
There’s a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.
I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.
I know I didn’t like that dress ’cause it didn’t fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren’t the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us.
Fashion has become so whatever. I don’t think there are any stones left to unturn.
The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they’re like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.
I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I’d always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.
Jaipur is the capital of Rajasthan and, in my opinion, the best place to visit. It is an amazing hub of history. It’s called the Pink City because all the architecture has a hint of pink in the stones used. It’s an amazing stop for all kinds of food but also for history and shopping. It has a little bit of everything.
When we came along in 1982, music was getting boring – like 1976 when punk hadn’t happened. We wanted to be rock ‘n’ roll. We grew up with The Velvet Underground, the Stones and Mars bars and Marianne Faithfull and we knew we didn’t want to be boring – and we weren’t!
My dad influenced my musical taste. I grew up listening to Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones and a bunch of rock music from the ’60s. Now, instead of watching TV, I’ll play a record from start to finish.
At my Rolling Stones’ tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
I love the Stones, but I’ve gone to a lot of gigs.
The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
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.
I don’t really have a lot of hip-hop and all of that, so I have a lot of John Lennon. That’s one that I really like, and The Clash, the Rolling Stones, groups that I think are kind of timeless.
We didn’t go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn’t want to be like any of the other bands.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.
I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.
Wu-Tang is looked at like the Rolling Stones of hip-hop.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
It doesn’t really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don’t, but I think they have, and to me that’s gratifying. It’s worth it.
Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven’t progressed enough and those about to go too far.
We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything.
You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.
I used play Gonggi Nori, which is played with 5 small stones. It is so fun to play!
I’m the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there’s a few more albums in us.
I kind of look at my modeling career and the Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I’m doing now.
I tend to be a jam-band fan, and I love the Rolling Stones.
I don’t see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid.
In rugby union, I was out wide kicking stones with the pretty boys.
And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.
Christ’s fishermen should not meddle with men’s law, for men’ s law contains sharp stones and trees by which the net of God is broken, and the fish wend out of the world.
I personally like the way John Stones plays because I think he’s a great defender.
That’s why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play ‘Satisfaction.’ The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.
Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
I wasn’t trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.
My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to ‘Satisfaction’ at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend’s house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend’s dad stopped the record when he heard the words ‘girlie action!’
