“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”

“Music is a language that doesnt speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if its in the bones, its in the bones.”

“Classic of '43. Don't knock it. A Vintage year.”

“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. The public library is a g...”

“I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.”

“I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be anywhere.”

“The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where were bound.”

“You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?”

“The music plays . . . and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream.”

“You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.”

“The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.”

“The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears. But this beat is fast and even though his joints are aching, his arm's out of control like it has a mi...”

“Keith Richards is a man without regret. When I ask him ifgiven the chance to do it all over againhed start taking heroin, he doesnt pause. Oh yes. Yes. There was a lot of experience in thereyou mee...”

“Keith Richards is a man without regret. When I ask him if—given the chance to do it all over again—he’d start taking heroin, he doesn’t pause. “Oh yes. Yes. There was a lot of experience in there—y...”