It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.

What interested me about Chuck Berry was the way he could step out of the rhythm part with such ease, throwing in a nice, simple riff, and then drop straight into the feel of it again. We used to play a lot more rhythm stuff. We'd do away with the differences between lead and rhythm guitar. You can't go into a shop and ask for a "lead guitar". You're a guitar player, and you play a guitar.

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

It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.

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.