Bobby Keys Quotes

It's pretty scripted on the road: very organised and compartmentalised, and that's the way it has to be with so many people involved in a Stones tour.

I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me away to a drummer when I was 15 years old.

The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.

It doesn't matter how many times I've played 'Brown Sugar', I never get tired of playing it.

Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

I've played in bands with A-team players around. But unless they can play together, it doesn't do any good. And you can take guys who may not stand on their own up against a bunch of individuals they might be compared to, but you put 'em together, man, and they are unique unto themselves in a way that no one else can touch.

I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing.

You got to realize that the vision, the image, according to 1964 U.S. rock and roll standards, was mohair suit and tie, and nicey-nicey ol' boy next door.

I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.

In the summertime, I played Little League baseball; football in the fall; basketball in the winter.

I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.

We just get up there and play rock-and-roll music, man. Everybody sweats and has a good time.

When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.