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"It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it."
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"Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well."
"The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands."
"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."
"If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!"
"With the same habit of mind, even if you live thousands of lives, all will be the same! Get a different habit of mind to get a different life!"
"In your winter you deny your spring."
"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."
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"When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them."
"The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic."
"I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them."
"I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow."
"Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that."
"I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once."
"We always work at least a month to six weeks before we go on the road, usually for something like eight to 12 hours a night. It took six weeks to do it this time. We just play virtually everything we know."
"People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud."
"Mick's not good on his own problems, but he's very good at other people's. He's been wonderful over the years. I don't mean I ring him up every week, but he's fantastic."
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