Top 1200 Rolling Stones Quotes & Sayings

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

I tend to be a jam-band fan, and I love the Rolling Stones.

I don't find imitating other people's music easy at all. I remember being fifth in line for a Rolling Stones tour, early '90s, when Bill Wyman left, and I was hoping against hope that I wouldn't get the call to audition. I wouldn't be able to play a Stones song if you put a gun to my head.

I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones.

We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.

Everybody is always raving about the Rolling Stones, saying, 'The Stones this, and the Stones that.' I've never cared for the Stones. They never had anything to offer me musically, especially in the drumming department.

I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.

When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones. For it is the nature of a log or stone to remain motionless on level ground, and to move when on a slope; if four-cornered, to come to a standstill, but if round-shaped to go rolling down.

I know Mick Jagger wouldn’t tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.

These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.

I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

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.

I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.

On my 50th birthday the Rolling Stones played at my party at Grosvenor House. That's not bad for a kid from Tooting.

The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe.

I've been meeting with Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino for years, trying to figure out how to fix the concert industry. We're all so overpaid. It's ridiculous. People stopped going to concerts because they can't afford them. The Rolling Stones are charging $650 per ticket! That just makes me speechless. I love the Stones, but I won't be attending.

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

I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!

I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.

I want to live with a monk... and the Rolling Stones.

Wu-Tang is looked at like the Rolling Stones of hip-hop.

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.

In 1965, my father was just twirling the dial of the radio to find something that would make me go to sleep, and as soon as I heard rock and roll there was no stopping me. It was during the height of Beatlemania and the British invasion, but I gravitated toward the harder, heavier music going on then, you know, the early Rolling Stones, the good Rolling Stones, and Paul Revere and the Raiders, who don't get the credit they deserve for spearheading the American '60s garage sound.

The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.

It's true that when I was younger and I first got interested in music, I used to read books about the Stones and the Beatles and how they listened to Muddy Waters and people like that when they were starting out, who are much less well known now than the Rolling Stones. The Stones really changed blues.

The Rolling Stones... The Rolling Stones have a reflection to my music; I wouldn't deny it. I think that's honest.

I love everything from The Rolling Stones to Run-DMC to Nina Simone.

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.

I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.

We could be as rich as the Rolling Stones if we sold as many records.

You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.

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

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

Those folks at Death Row were the Rolling Stones of their time.

I've been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

I was a massive Rolling Stones fan, and I wanted to play music like... they do... were doing.

If you're the Rolling Stones, you can sing 'Start Me Up' for 35 years, and people still cheer.

They got love bigger than the Beatles, wild and free like the Rolling Stones.

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.

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.

I went on tour with the Rolling Stones in 1972 for two or three cities. And in 1975, I was the tour photographer for the Rolling Stones. I hung onto my camera for dear life. Because it scared the hell out of me.

Growing up, as much as country was a big influence in my life, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and Led Zeppelin were such a close second. My first concert ever was the Rolling Stones in Denver. I snuck a camera backstage and filmed Mick Jagger during sound-check.

I wanted to be in Rolling Stone number two with a tomorrow feel to it, like an experimental Rolling Stones with Jagger singing.

I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park.

The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they're like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.

Were the Rolling Stones good looking? Well, Jagger was, but the rest of the dudes? Maybe not so much.

I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

I really felt like we were gonna be The Rolling Stones of heavy metal, and we could have been.

I have my granddad's record collection, which I treasure, and my father's - Rolling Stones to Sidney Bechet.

I was a big fan of the Rain Parade, Green on Red, X, the Rolling Stones.

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.

I think of the Avengers as The Beatles, and the Guardians are the Rolling Stones. That is really how I feel about the groups.

[joking about the length of the Rolling Stones' career] You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

We're not idols onstage. We're not the Rolling Stones.

I've been ripping the Rolling Stones off with every song I write in some form or another.

I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.'