I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones,… — Bucky Pope Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The… — Moby Copy Share Image
I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay $25… — Kevin Plank Copy Share Image
When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me… — Bobby Keys Copy Share Image
I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought,… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to… — Jim Talent Copy Share Image
I'm definitely not a laptop/midi/abelton guy. But there is a lot of music I like. I really like Bach organ music. I… — Gordon Raphael Copy Share Image
The Rolling Stones were an inkling towards an appreciation of the unity of music, dance and words. Any of the black R&B… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
What originally established the band was cover songs like Not Fade Away. Then, later on, we got more well-known ones like Satisfaction,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Bob Wallace was my editor at Rolling Stone when I first started writing there, and he's a wonderful editor. I was in… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I love it [music]. I always have loved it. There's something about playing music that inspires me. When I've had some really… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
I remember Simple Minds, Echo and the Bunnymen, Nina Hagen, Elvis Costello and Duran Duran. And the best concert I ever saw… — Carlos Carvalhal Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Angarano Copy Share Image
My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am… — Bill Wyman Copy Share Image
Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
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I wondered how I was going to do it and keep my job at Rolling Stone at the same time. They were… — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard 'Baby One… — Sara Paxton Copy Share Image
The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were… — Bono Copy Share Image
Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
That's the choice they allow you - now the outlet is being a pop star, which is really what I'm saying on… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
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I was working as a staff writer at Rolling Stone. I had a friend who worked at MTV, and she called me… — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say,… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't… — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
I was never in the office [of Rolling Stone]. It was very different from Lampoon, where we spent a lot of time… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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When I started Rolling Stone in November 1967, the magazine's initial chapter was to cover rock & roll music with intelligence and… — Jann Wenner Copy Share Image
It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it." "What… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
I fell into hip-hop right from the beginning. I was a teenager in the '60s, so I was putting all my pocket… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
There's a lot of music that we've never heard before. It's not like we're just pulling out December's Children by The Rolling… — Ira Kaplan Copy Share Image
I loved the Rolling Stones. I heard a little bit of country music creeping around the edges of some of their songs.… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
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![“I love it [music]. I always have loved it. There's something about playing music that inspires me. When I've had some really down periods in my life, debauched beyond belief, not knowing what the hell I'm gonna do with my life, [Rolling Stones'] "Street Fighting Man" or something like that would…” quote by Creed Bratton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7fa/creed-bratton-15532_belief_i-love-it-music-i-always-have-loved-it-t_740489.jpg)
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