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.

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.

I don't know if people in New York recognize me or not. I'm not really conscious of it. If somebody stops me, then I suddenly realize that people are looking at me, but other times they may be doing it and I don't even know because I'm engrossed in something else.

If you're gonna get wasted, get wasted elegantly.

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.