English Quotes

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.

I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.

I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

I never really did any disco dancing.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

I don't want to live on past records.

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

Everybody is a teenage idol.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.

Where there's a will - there's a relative!

Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!

Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.

Why by a book when you can join a library.

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.

You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'

The grass isn't always greener on the other side!

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.