About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.Collection: Family
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.Collection: Music
I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.Collection: Marriage
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!Collection: Music
To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.Collection: Technology
It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.Collection: Great
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.Collection: Music
This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.
When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.
Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I can't get out of it. It fascinates me. I like to point out the rawer points of life.
To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.
You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.
Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.
I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.
And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.
To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.
When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.
I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting.Collection: Funny
I'm not getting old I'm evolving.Collection: Evolve
Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.Collection: Emotion