the-rolling-stones

"Fate, I respect a lot. I never regret anything."

"I decided to kidnap Brian. It sounds ridiculous but they even made a film about it, about kidnapping a pop star ['Privilege'] starring Paul Jones. This was the original story, Brian seemed to be the most sexually flexible. I knew I could talk to him. As a matter of fact when I met him I was his groupie really. I got backstage with a photographer, I told him I just wanted to meet him. I had some Amyl Nitrate and a piece of hash. I asked Brian if he wanted a joint and he said yes, so he asked me back to his hotel and he cried all night. He was so upset about Mick and Keith still, saying they had teamed up on him. I felt so sorry for him. Brian was fantastic, he had everything going for him, but he was just too complicated."

"They looked at me like I was some kind of threat. [Mick] Jagger really tried to put me down, but there was no way some crude, lippy guy was going to do a number on me. I was always able to squelch him. I found out that, if you stand up to Mick, he crumbles."

"I was too independent for Mick. I wasn't proper enough for him. He's a chauvinist. I wouldn't put up with that. Keith, surprisingly, is not. Though I feel sorry for Patti [Hansen]. I love her and think she is a marvellous woman, but I would not want to be in her shoes now. It's such a lonely existence, living with a rock 'n' roller. No matter how much he loves you, he will always love his music more. I know when Keith is working on his music nothing else matters to him. He can be in a room with fifty people and he won't nothing anything but his guitar. A woman, to live with a rock star, must find her ways of independence."

"That boy of 17 who shot himself in my house really ended it for us. And although we occasionally saw each other for the sake of the children, it was the end of our personal relationship."

"At first I'm sure Anita wanted to protect Brian from what she thought was our cruelty and callousness. Coming in like that she couldn't realize how the scene developed. Or how impossible it was to deal with a dead weight like Brian. They had incredible fights. And she used to beat the shit out of him every time. He would start a fight. Obviously she was tougher than him. He always was walking around with his ribs bandaged or his eyed blackened. Anita felt Brian was somebody who could be sensitive and obviously she felt he needed support. When he started paying her back by trying to beat her up, she began to realize."

"That song is about a few other things as well. And Anita is one of them. I was breaking up with her around that time. I'd said, "Look, if we clean up together, we'll stay together". Well, I cleaned myself up. But she didn't. And I realized that I couldn't sleep with someone who had a needle beside the bed. I was too fragile at that point. I loved her, but I had to leave."

"They fought about everything - cars, prices, restaurant menus. Brian could never win an argument with Anita although he always made the mistake of trying. There would be terrible scenes with both of them screaming at each other. The difference was that Brian didn't know what he was doing. Anita did know what she was doing. I think in a more gracious age, Anita would have been called a witch."

"Mick seemed to delight in Anita's sharp mind, her vicious streak that made her somehow very different from Marianne. For a while she seemed to dominate him with the same, almost supernatural hold she had over Brain & Keith. Once I heard Anita listen to a tape of 'Stray Cat Blues' as Jagger proudly waited her tell him (as all the other lackeys had done) how brilliant it was. "Crap," she said when it had finished. "The vocals are mixed up too high, and the bass isn't loud enough." Mick, with the basic insecurity of every creative artist, was so unused to hearing someone dare criticize his work that he at once went back to the studio and had the number remixed."

"I believe that Anita is, for want of a better word, a witch...The occult unit within the Stones was Keith and Anita...and Brian. You see, Brian was a witch too."

"I knew her since we were first hanging out in London with The Rolling Stones. She was a real nasty person. She would do anything to upset her girlfriends. I don't know her anymore."

"I felt from Anita an unmistakable electrical charge. She was so clever, so European, so built...She exuded a stylish and playful decadence that was at once intellectual, sultry, and mischievous. She was so perfectly Continental. She made quite a lasting impression on me that night."

"Under my thumb The girl who once had me down Under my thumb The girl who once pushed me around. It's down to me. The difference in the clothes she wears Down to me, the change has come, She's under my thumb."

"I see a red door and I want it painted black. No colors anymore, I want them to turn back. I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes. I have to turn my head until my darkness goes."

"Let's spend the night together. Now I need you more than ever. Let's spend the night together now."

"Don't question why she needs to be so free, She'll tell you it's the only way to be. She just can't be chained To a life where nothing's gained And nothing's lost At such a cost. Goodbye Ruby Tuesday, who could hang a name on you? When you change with ev'ry new day? Still I'm gonna miss you."

"Please allow me to introduce myself. I'm a man of wealth and taste. I've been around for a long long year stolen many man's soul and faith. I was around when Jesus Christ had His moment of doubt and pain. Made damn sure that Pilate washed his hands and sealed His fate. Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name. But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game."

"I watched with glee while your kings and queens Fought for ten decades for the Gods they'd made I shouted out "Who killed the Kennedys?" when after all it was you and me. Let me please introduce myself; I'm a man of wealth and taste. And I lay traps for troubadours who get killed before they reach Bombay."

"Just as every cop is a criminal and all the sinners, Saints As heads is tails, just call me Lucifer 'cause I'm in need of some restraint So if you meet me, have some courtesy have some sympathy and some taste Use all your well learned politesse or I'll lay your soul to waste."

"Ev'rywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy 'Cause summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy. But what can a poor boy do except to sing for a Rock'N'Roll Band 'Cause in sleepy London Town there's just no place for Street Fighting Man! No!"

"War, children, it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away. War, children, it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away. See the fire sweepin' out every street today, Burns like a red coal carpet, mad bull lost its way."

"Well, we all need someone we can lean on. And if you want it, you can lean on me. Yeah, we all need someone we can lean on. And if you want it, you can lean on me."

"Talkin' 'bout the Midnight Rambler, the one you never seen before. Talkin' 'bout the midnight gambler Did you see him jump the garden wall?"

"You can't always get what you want But if you try sometime, yeah, You just might find, you get what you need!"

"I saw her today at the reception. In her glass was a bleeding man. She was practiced at the art of deception; I could tell by her blood-stained hands."

"Brown sugar, how come you taste so good? Brown sugar, just like a young girl should."

"Did you ever wake up to find A day that broke up your mind? Destroyed your notion of circular time? It's just that demon life has got you in its sway."

"Childhood living is easy to do The things you wanted, I bought them for you Graceless lady, you know who I am You know I can't let you slide through my hands Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, couldn't drag me away."

"I know I've dreamed you a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don't have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Let's do some living after we die. Wild horses, couldn't drag me away Wild wild horses we'll ride them someday."

"Take me down little Susie, take me down. I know you think you're the queen of the underground. And you can send me dead flowers every morning. Send me dead flowers by the mail. Send me dead flowers to my wedding. And I won't forget to put roses on your grave."

"The sound of strangers sending nothing to my mind, Just another mad mad day on the road. I am just living to be lying by your side, But I'm just about a moonlight mile on down the road."

"I'm always hearing voices on the street, I want to shout, but I can't hardly speak. I was making love last night To a dancer friend of mine. I can't seem to stay in step, 'Cause she come ev'ry time that she pirouettes over me.And I only get my rocks off while I'm dreaming, I only get my rocks off while I'm sleeping."

"Mister President, Mister Immigration Man, Let me in, sweetie, to your fair land. I'm Tampa bound and Memphis too, Short Fat Fanny is on the loose."

"Women think I'm tasty, but they're always tryin' to waste me, Make me burn the candle right down. But baby, baby, I don't need no jewels in my crown. 'Cause all you women is low down gamblers, Cheatin' like I don't know how, But baby, baby, there's fever in the funk house now."

"Wadin' through the waste stormy winter, And there's not a friend to help you through. Tryin' to stop the waves behind your eyeballs, Drop your reds, drop your greens and blues."

"Well the ballrooms and smelly bordellos And dressing rooms filled with parasites. On stage the band has got problems, They're a bag of nerves on first nights. He ain't tied down to no home town, Yeah, and he thought he was reckless. You think he's bad, he thinks you're mad, Yeah, and the guitar player gets restless."

"Give me little drink from your loving cup. Just one drink and I'll fall down drunk."

"Always took candy from strangers Didn't wanna get me no trade Never want to be like papa Working for the boss ev'ry night and day."

"When your spine is cracking and your hands, they shake, Heart is bursting and you butt's gonna break. Your woman's cussing, you can hear her scream, You feel like murder in the first degree."

"Who's that woman on your arm, all dressed up to do you harm? And I'm hip to what she'll do, give her just about a month or two. Bit off more than I can chew, and I knew what it was leading to. Some things, well, I can't refuse, One of them, one of them the bedroom blues."

"May the good Lord shine a light on you, Make every song (you sing) your favorite tune. May the good Lord shine a light on you, Warm like the evening sun."

"Down in the graveyard where we have our tryst, The air smells sweet, the air smells sick; He never smiles, his mouth merely twists, The breath in my lungs feels clinging and thick; But I know his name, he's called Mr. D, And one of these days, he's going to set you free."

"Now all my friends are wearing worried smiles, Living out a dream of what they was. Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up?Went out walkin' through the wood the other day. Can't you see the furrows in my forehead? What tender days, we had no secrets hid away. Now it seems about a hundred years ago."

"Slipped my tongue in someone else's pie, Tasting better ev'ry time. She turned green and tried to make me cry. Being hungry, it ain't no crime."

"Heart breaker, heart breaker, You stole the love right out of my heart. Heart breaker, heart breaker, I wanna tear your world apart."

"Oh, Angie, Oh, Angie, when will those dark clouds disappear? Angie, Angie, where will it lead us from here? With no loving in our souls and no money in our coats. You can't say we're satisfied. But Angie, Angie, you can't say we never tried."

"It sure been a hard, hard winter. My feet been draggin' 'cross the ground. And I hope it's gonna be a long, hot summer, And a lotta love will be burnin' bright."

"If I could stick my pen in my heart, I would spill it all over the stage. Would it satisfy ya, would it slide on by ya, Would you think the boy is strange? Ain't he strange? If I could win ya, if I could sing ya A love song so divine, Would it be enough for your cheating heart If I broke down and cried? If I cried? I said I know it's only rock 'n roll but I like it. I know it's only rock'n roll but I like it, like it, yes, I do."

"Yeah, a movie house on Forty-Second Street Ain't a very likely place for you and I to meet. Watching the snow swirl around your hair and around your feet, And I'm thinking to myself she surely looks a treat. Till the next time we say goodbye, Till the next time we say goodbye, Till the next time that we kiss goodnight, I'll be thinking of you, I'll be thinking of you."

"Yes, star crossed in pleasure the stream flows on by, Yes, as we're sated in leisure, we watch it fly.And time waits for no one, and it won't wait for me. And time waits for no one, and it won't wait for me."