Ronnie Wood Quotes
People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!
Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?
Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.
Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.
When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!
The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was... good.
There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.
When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.
The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.
We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.
I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.
I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.
My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.
We'll rock till we drop. We have all agreed this won't be the last time. Everyone's rocking.
My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.
I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.
I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.
Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.
It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.
I used to worry, 'I've lost my family.' They hated me for a while, but they're very resilient.
I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.
I have a life coach out with me on tour, a very nice guy from L.A. He just prepares me for each day.
All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals.
