Like a Rolling Stone Quotes

“Now all of a sudden, I was on the streets of Berkeley, in a world of radicals, Hell’s Angels, harmonica queens, drug dealers, and dope kings.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“Date night? It was always about me and what I wanted to do.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“I didn’t love Jane in that swept-away sense. I didn’t put her needs first or think about trying to surprise or delight her. I didn’t take time out of my daily life to find that “special something” for her.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“Bill and Al were smart guys, the best and brightest. I chided them both about being show-offs about their knowledge, which got a good laugh. The two of them returned again and again to three themes: the expansion of human rights—gay, black, and female; income inequality—the threatening consequences of tax cuts for the rich and turning over Social Security to Wall Street; and the environment—the projected melting of the ice caps, global warming, and certain devastation within fewer than fifty years.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“BOB DYLAN WAS in town for a run at the Beacon, a few blocks from my house, which was becoming a regular stop for performers in my age group.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“WE WENT TO Paul Simon’s farewell concert at Madison Square Garden. He was seventy-seven; I never thought someone could retire from rock and roll. Paul’s music triumphed over his stiff personality, and the show went right onto my all-time-best list.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“IN APRIL, I. M. PEI turned one hundred. His adult children had a party for him on the roof of the St. Regis Hotel. Talk about “It was an older crowd.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“and the lawyers, as usual, got the money, far, far more than anyone else did.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“THE NOBEL PRIZE for Literature was given to Bob Dylan. The affirmation of Bob’s talent was obvious and overdue. He was one of the twentieth century’s literary masters, and this was the world’s highest honor. No artist meant more to me.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“In the end he went on 60 Minutes—a nothingburger, but great publicity. It was soon revealed that the federal police had followed Sean and the woman he was with—a Mexican soap opera star whom El Chapo had set his eye on. They unknowingly led the federales to El Chapo.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“Sean and El Chapo had spent a long night over tacos and tequilas until they were suddenly awakened before sunlight and forced by approaching military to depart through the jungle. In the end, Sean hadn’t gotten the interview, just the promise of one.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“These were people lodged deep in my life and who would be forever. I suppose that’s one of the definitions of family. With that comes unspoken, unconditional love, and the safety to be totally yourself.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“When I told Yoko about my visit with Paul, she said something to the effect that I had fallen under his spell.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“Mick had just performed at the White House, and Obama had been in New York singing impromptu with Al Green at the Apollo, so he enjoyed telling those stories. We got sidetracked into gossiping about Bono, whom, he said, he had drunk under the table one late night at the White House.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“I was afraid of anything that would break the threads that bound me to the kids, to the idea of family.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“A WEEK AFTER GETTING back from Burning Man for the third time, I was in the Oval Office with Obama. He complimented me on my multicolored striped socks, saying if he weren’t president, he could wear socks like mine.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“I thought that prejudicial adjectives and liberal clichés in the reportorial copy undercut the power of the facts.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“THE STONES WERE putting out a new edition of Exile on Main Street, which was another excuse for a party at our house. It’s always fun to watch Keith arrive anywhere, never a quiet entrance. He’s just got so much in motion on him: earrings, bracelets, rings; things twisted into his hair, headband, and hat; shirt unbuttoned; scarves, beads, and necklaces, plus a belt with a skull or something similar”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“The Hall of Fame concert was shown on HBO over Thanksgiving, and the next day Dylan called. “How come I wasn’t there? Those were my people. I should have been there.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“If there was going to be a Simon and Garfunkel reunion, Paul insisted on having his own solo set as well. For his section, Paul brought on Dion, with Little Anthony and the Imperials as special guests. Artie asked me to get Paul to give him more verses in “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” Taking these calls is what a “producer” does. When I mentioned this to Paul, he said that giving that song to Artie was the biggest mistake of his life. I guess some people are just meant for each other.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“Wallace, it turned out, was a big fan of Rolling Stone and me. When he died we had hours of tape of him trying to explain his life.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“DAVID FOSTER WALLACE hanged himself at age forty-six. I had sent one of our best new feature writers, David Lipsky, out to profile Wallace when Infinite Jest was first published in 1996.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“Burning Man was a mash-up of Star Wars and Apocalypse Now and Disneyland and the Las Vegas Strip.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“The highlight is on Saturday, when the thousands gather to watch a bonfire consume the Burning Man, a ten-story-high wooden effigy packed with gasoline.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“We walked around in the afternoons visiting art installations and camps that offered all kinds of entertainments. The pop-up city was a psychedelic carnival.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“He filled the camp with fellow ecstasy fanatics, free spirits, and babes. There was more than enough sensuality to be had, but three guys in their sixties traveling with the wives of their close friends was like traveling with private detectives.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“BURNING MAN WAS not on my radar. Taking drugs twenty-four hours a day with thousands of people in the windblown desert a hundred miles outside of Reno, Nevada, was not on my bucket list, more like my fuck-it list.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“we hunger for the restoration of hope and common sense and purpose.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

“We don’t need leaders who wear flag pins in their lapel, but rather men and women who have the guts to tell us the truth.”
― Jann S. Wenner, Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir