To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

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 look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

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.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.

True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

You don't find a style. A style finds you

Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.

Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.

Oh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing.

It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.

Do what is right, and the reward will be immediate and multitudinous. Think what is right, and your authority will grow.

Joe Henderson with Ron Carter and Al Foster at the Vanguard was just wow. And the energy of the three of them.

If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.

Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down.