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Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty. -- Britney Spears
On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. -- Aldous Huxley
We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth. -- Dave Barry
There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years. -- Eddie Vedder
I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other. -- Ralph Steadman
Rolling torture wagons for nature's most dignified creature. -- Alec Baldwin
Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned. -- Sammy Hagar
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. -- Jim Carrey
There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners. -- John Lydon
Rolling down the street, smoking indo, sippin' on gin and juice. -- Snoop Dogg
You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same. -- Brian Wilson
General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. -- Michael Hastings
The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols. -- Brian Wilson
I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park. -- Paul Kantner
I wanted a real band. I wanted the Rolling Stones, the Beatles. -- Christopher Owens
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish. -- Oliver Herford
I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War. -- Dave Barry
I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones. -- Nikki Sixx
You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones. -- Keith Richards
They got love bigger than the Beatles, wild and free like the Rolling Stones. -- Joe Diffie
We all face adversity and tragedy and need inspiration and motivation to Keep Rolling. -- Steve Gleason
I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one. -- Hugh Jackman
I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones. -- Richie Sambora
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. -- Mark Twain
I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones. -- Saoirse Ronan
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records. -- Keith Richards
I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not. -- Danny Masterson
The only thing I use the Rolling Stone for is toilet paper when I run out. -- Neal Schon
"Like a Rolling Stone" [of Bob Dylan] is a kiss-off song like none before or since. -- Bob Dylan
These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably. -- Diablo Cody
Rolling Stone hates me. They must have an editorial policy to do me in for many years. -- Joni Mitchell
A few of the artists knew my name, because I have an unusual name, from Rolling Stone. -- Jancee Dunn
Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships -- Geri Halliwell
I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever! -- Jesse Ventura
At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way. -- Annie Leibovitz
If you're the Rolling Stones, you can sing 'Start Me Up' for 35 years, and people still cheer. -- Bryan Callen
I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs. -- Ragnar Kjartansson
While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan. -- Celia Imrie
I have my granddad's record collection, which I treasure, and my father's - Rolling Stones to Sidney Bechet. -- Alaina Huffman
The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones. -- Lars Ulrich
I've been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. -- Mac Miller
Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones. -- Moby
I guess I haven't talked to Bob Dylan since before then [interview to Rolling Stones]. I follow his career. -- Nat Hentoff
Were the Rolling Stones good looking? Well, Jagger was, but the rest of the dudes? Maybe not so much. -- Ashton Irwin
I welcome all interviews with 'Rolling Stone' magazine, and I'm sure people will talk to me in the future. -- Michael Hastings
The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they're like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC. -- Diablo Cody
My first car was a 1977 Oldsmobile Delta 88. Ugly car. More ugly on this car than a Rolling Stones group photo. -- Christopher Titus
I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist. -- Diablo Cody
Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes. -- Pete Townshend
I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me. -- Benmont Tench
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Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave. -- Diablo Cody
I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone". -- Al Kooper
I love OneRepublic, The Script, All Time Low. I love pretty much every genre. I love the Rolling Stones and Elvis. -- Ross Lynch
I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records. -- Keith Richards
I couldn't turn down The Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them. -- Steve Lillywhite
I would that I were an old beggar Rolling a blind pearl eye, For he cannot see my lady Go gallivanting by. -- William Butler Yeats
You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones! -- Keith Richards
Rolling down the windows, yeah I got an air conditiona, but I got a sound I want the whole world to listenta. -- Masta Ace
The Rolling Stones were one of the best bands ever, and 'Sticky Fingers' is one of the best rock albums I've ever heard. -- Buzz Osborne
I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism. -- Haruki Murakami
I wanted to be in Rolling Stone number two with a tomorrow feel to it, like an experimental Rolling Stones with Jagger singing. -- Jeff Beck
I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway. -- Ritchie Blackmore
While the Beatles always had George Martin around to clean up their act, the Rolling Stones had Andrew Loog Oldham to coarsen theirs. -- Jon Landau
I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force. -- Mike Love
The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs. -- Colin Mochrie
When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't. -- Annie Leibovitz
Rolling all of your debts into a single loan is a good idea - in theory. In fact, it can be a great idea. -- Jean Chatzky
I like The Beatles and I like The Kinks and I like The Rolling Stones and I like Led Zeppelin and I like Black Sabbath. -- Rachel Trachtenburg
People assume that because I was brought up on Rolling Stones tours, and my father is who he is, I'm some kind of rock-and-roll bad girl. -- Elizabeth Jagger
I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like that. -- Bucky Pope
The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy. -- Christina Aguilera
If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio, -- Chris Cornell
If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio. -- Chris Cornell
The [Bob] Dylan sessions were very disorganized, to say the least. I mean, the "Like A Rolling Stone" session I was invited by the producer to watch. -- Al Kooper
The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello. -- Dan Hill
The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.' -- Jon Landau
The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea. -- David Allan Coe
Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me. -- Alison Krauss
I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department. -- Kurt Loder
I like to listen to different kinds of music - it just depends on my mood. I love Madonna, Russian singers... I like the Rolling Stones a lot! -- Oksana Baiul
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. -- Michael Angarano
There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone. -- Dweezil Zappa
On the Rolling Stones - You will walk out of the Amphitheatre after watching the Stones perform and suddenly the Chicago stockyards smell clean and good by comparison. -- Tom Fitzpatrick
When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days. -- Patty Duke
I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay. -- Rachel Zoe
Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963. -- Gordon Lightfoot
I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds. -- Rob Sheffield
For groups like the Rolling Stones names like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf were exotic inspirations. For Siegel-Schwall they were the guys that played with them on 43rd Street. -- Lin Brehmer
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them. -- Jose Marti
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I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music. -- Tommy Bolin
The Rolling Stones suffered a great loss with the death of Ian Stewart, the man who had for so many years played piano quietly and silently with them on stage. -- Andy Peebles
I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks. -- Barack Obama
We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like any of the other bands. -- Michael Giles
The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out. -- Jon Bon Jovi
I hear a really good pop song every now and then. 'ROAR' by Katy Perry, I love that! 'Poker Face'... Oh! What a song! And 'Rolling in the Deep'... Oh! -- Bjorn Ulvaeus
I would say that longtime fans of the Rolling Stones will be thrilled with these results, and new fans will understand why they're the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world. -- Don Was
The Faces do not, as some have recently alleged, play badly. They are more than competent, especially at creating a mid-Sixties Rolling Stones-styled groove, as their excellent version of 'Memphis' proves. -- Jon Landau
We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything. -- Mike Lowry
The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not. -- Andrew Loog Oldham
Fast Food Nation' appeared as an article in 'Rolling Stone' before it was a book, so I was extending it from the article, and by that time, everyone could read the article. -- Eric Schlosser
Musicians of any era - whether it be The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Rage Against the Machine, or, of course, Madonna - will inspire fashion. And we, in turn, will inspire them. -- Renzo Rosso
The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death. -- Norm MacDonald
I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings. -- Bill Wyman
When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had. -- Jonathan Lethem
My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me. -- Patti Smith
When I started covering The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a rock 'n' roll band, it helped me realize that my natural voice is actually really high. It helped me find my voice. -- Gotye
It's time for new bands to step up because KISS and Mtley Cre, Aerosmith, The [Rolling] Stones... we're not always gonna be here. Who's gonna replace us? There's no one out there. It's sad. -- Nikki Sixx
There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin? -- Lars von Trier
We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour. -- Phil Knight
When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't true. What became important was to have a point of view. -- Annie Leibovitz
Rolling Stones, Beatles, we gave them all the break they were looking for. All they needed was a good opening act, and we went out there and performed as well as we could... over 15,000 kids chanting. -- Bobby Hatfield
When I started Rolling Stone in November 1967, the magazine's initial chapter was to cover rock & roll music with intelligence and respect. Even then, we knew that the fervor sweeping our generation encompassed more than just music. -- Jann Wenner
At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought. -- Scott Ian
Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he was honing his craft at Rolling Stone back in the day. -- Thomas Frank
A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, "We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song." You better find a new ending then, because unless you have $2 million for that song. -- Rob Zombie
If you ask me who the members of the Rolling Stones or Led Zep or the Clash were, I'd be able to tell you every member. But I couldn't name a single member of Arctic Monkeys. -- Dave Gahan
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. -- Henry Rollins
With the groups who asked me to join them - like the Rolling Stones, Spirit, David Bowie, and Blood, Sweat & Tears - I said no right away because I was way too much into my own thing. -- Shuggie Otis

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