Stones Quotes

Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.

In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

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.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.

I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

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.

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

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.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

It's in the vein, somewhere in a cross between The Beatles, Cheap Trick, The Stones, Badfinger, you know, but it's not retro at all. But it is very pop.

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

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.

The early firings contained many stones.