The Rolling Stones

It’s only Rock’n’Roll. Here is a collection of quotes about and by The Rolling Stones.

The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones


Showing results 1 to 50 of 68


A good thing never ends.
Mick Jagger

A smile relieves a heart that grieves.
The Rolling Stones
Source: Waiting on a Friend Lyrics

All dancing is a replacement for sex.
Mick Jagger

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Mick Jagger

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.
Mick Jagger

Catch your dreams before they slip away.
The Rolling Stones
Source: Ruby Tuesday Lyrics

Do you have to be black or white to play the blues?
Keith Richards

Don't play with me, 'cause you're playing with fire.
The Rolling Stones

Don't take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
Mick Jagger

Don't ya feel like cryin'?
The Rolling Stones
Source: Lyrics: Cry to me.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.
Mick Jagger

Faith has been broken, tears must be cried
Let's do some living after we die
The Rolling Stones
Source: From song lyrics: Wild Horses

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere.
Keith Richards

How does it feel?
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
Bob Dylan

I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay.
Rachel Zoe

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
Mick Jagger

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
Mick Jagger

I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.
Charlie Watts

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

I know it's only Rock & Roll, but I like it.
The Rolling Stones

I look inside myself and see my heart is black.
The Rolling Stones
Source: Paint it Black Lyrics

I only get ill when I give up drugs.
Keith Richards

I see a line of cars and they're all painted black
With flowers and my love, both never to come back
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Like a new born baby, it just happens every day.
The Rolling Stones
Source: Paint it Black Lyrics

I see a red door and I want it painted black.
The Rolling Stones

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45.
Mick Jagger

I'm not getting old. I'm evolving.
Keith Richards

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.
Saoirse Ronan

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.
Keith Richards

I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
Keith Richards

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

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.
Michael Angarano

If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever.
Andy Taylor

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.
Chris Cornell

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
Keith Richards

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.
Charlie Watts

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
Mick Jagger

It's good to be anywhere.
Keith Richards

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.
Keith Richards

It's the singer, not the song.
The Rolling Stones

Let's drink to the hard working people
Let's drink to the lowly of birth
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Lets drink to the salt of the earth
The Rolling Stones
Source: Salt of the Earth Lyrics

Lose your dreams and you will lose your mind.
The Rolling Stones
Source: Ruby Tuesday lyrics

My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.
Ron Wood

Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.
Mick Jagger

Paint it black.
The Rolling Stones

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.
Mick Jagger

Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name.
The Rolling Stones

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.
Charlie Watts

Songwriting's a weird game.
Keith Richards

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

The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.
Mick Jagger


 Next 18



Related keywords

life music joy singing satisfaction