Quotes About Legacy

I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn't make my career out of old songs; it would do my head in.

When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.

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.

Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

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

I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.

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

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.

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

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

I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me away to a drummer when I was 15 years old.

The Stones were a big influence on me and the Beatles, obviously.

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

I honestly grew up listening to the Stones more. But that doesn't mean I don't love the Beatles.

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 am not going to sit here and disrespect Tottenham one bit because what they have done for me over the years is fantastic, and I am more than grateful. The way they have made the stepping stones in the right direction over the years I have been there is crazy.

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

It happens in this business - The Rolling Stones were ripped off, so were the Beatles. George Harrison hardly had anything left in the end.

I am the future of strength as I am King of the Stones!

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

I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

I'd like my grandchildren to be able to see that their grandmother stood up for something, a long time ago.

Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.