Rolling Stones Quotes

“Lose your dream, you lose your mind.”
― The Rolling Stones

“...it was not simply a matter of musical taste; whether you preferred the Beatles or [the Rolling] Stones said much about your personality and character. People who were happy, intelligent, well-adjusted, popular, clean, decent and punctual tended to be Beatles fans. Those who were evil, cretinous, scabby, drug-ridden, filthy, criminal perverts liked the Stones.
As for your author, I personally take no side in the controversy, remaining strictly neutral.”
― Lewis Grossberger

“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, Horns

“so that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they talk about incest, the Oedipus complex, about psychotic mothers, like those of Snow White and Hansel and Gretel, who throw their children out. They tell things about life which children know instinctively, and the pleasure and relief lie in finding these things expressed in language that children can live with. You can't eradicate these feelings – they exist and they're a great source of creative inspiration.”
― Maurice Sendak

“Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.”
― Lester Bangs

“On the Rolling Stones - You will walk out of the Amphitheatre after watching the Stones perform and suddenly the Chicago stockyards smell clean and good by comparison.”
― Tom Fitzpatrick

“If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.”
― Keith Richards, Life

“Maybe nobody went to see the Rolling Stones here in 1964,' said Ros. 'The dead shark was just too much fun.”
― Nick Hornby, Juliet, Naked

“Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.”
― Lester Bangs

“I'm reading Keith Richards' autobiography. I didn't even know he could read, never mind write. Probably all recorded off a Marshall amplifier.”
― Sienna McQuillen

“Men who love the Stones are fixated on cock.”
― Joe Hill, The Fireman

“One of the Keith Commandments is that nothing is secret.”
― Jessica Pallington West

“SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL

Now please let me introduce myself
I’m the wealthy charming man
Been here on earth for many, many years
Many hearts, faiths and souls I stole

I was around and watched Jesus Christ
Had his faith, doubt and pain
Conned goddamn Pontus Pilate
To wash his hands and doom his soul

Thrilled to meet you
Do you guess my name
Thought I’m in hell but no I’m right here
That’s the puzzling nature of my game”
― Mawuena Addo, Roses in the Rainbow

“But when I asked if she was behind 'You Can't Always Get What You Want,' she said, 'Absolutely. That's my song. Every time I hear it, I'm right back with Mick in the flat. Music can't tell time.”
― Rich Cohen, The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones

“« Laisseriez-vous votre fille sortir avec un Rolling Stone ? », leurs trognes de repris de justice détrônaient les aimables Beatles à l'heure du divorce. Ce mélange détonnant de blues noir et de soul blanche, de rock minéral et d'effervescence pop, d'énergie suicidaire et de rébellion affichée. Une acmé.
~ p 109”
― François Armanet, Les minets

“If I had a lot of money, I would buy a lot of things that I don't need.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“On a scale of 1-10 how do ya rate the Stones in Concert . . . 12 !! . . . but in New York City . . . 15”
― Kevin Kolenda

“A little white girl stares, holding her father's hand tightly. She has dewy eyes, round with wonder. as the Maxwell St. Bluesman voice sounds like the crackle of thunder.
The Lost Culture of Maxwell Street”
― John H. Sibley, Being and Homelessness: Notes from an Underground Artist

“Stoned Soup by Stewart Stafford

Keith Richards talks Brendan Behan,
Making soup, wrapped in a blanket,
While in a kitchen in County Cork,
Mick Jagger listens and laughs loudly.

Discussing the previous night’s gig,
Mick says the crowd was wonderful,
Keith agrees and says so was Charlie,
Keith’s lip cigarette jigs to each word.

Through choking plumes of smoke,
The soup is ready, Mick tries some,
His notable lips curl downwards fast,
He humours Keith and says it’s great.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“One final note one the [Rolling] Stones, though: When they came through the Bay Area earlier on that tour for regular concerts at the Oakland Coliseum Arena [before the Altamont free concert, 1969], 'They blew up all their equipment at the first show,' Betty Cantor-Jackson relates. 'They had all this Ampeg equipment, and it just went Ffffffttt! They were in a panic, so [Larry] Ram Rod [Shurtliff] and [Unknown maybe Rex?] Jackson raced to our [Grateful Dead] warehouse and brought down a bunch of our [rewired, kicked up, tinkered and experimented with] Fender amps for them, and the next show we sat up onstage while they played, and it sounded amazing. That was one of the times Bill Graham was nice to us,' She laughs. 'Anyway, I remember the first note Keith {Richards} played through Jerry's [Garcia] amp, and his mouth just dropped open. 'Woah!'. He couldn't believe the power and the clarity.'.”
― Blair Jackson, Grateful Dead Gear: The Band's Instruments, Sound Systems, and Recording Sessions from 1965 to 1995

“Age and Time cannot stop the Rolling Stones, the phoenixes of Rock ‘n’ Roll. They gather moss as they roll on, splicing eclectic genre with eccentric fuss, mildly tuned down to hail the oomph of imperious melody. The Stones sure rock. They roll with impunity. And we listen with gaiety.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu