Life 4 csillagozás

Being an only child forces you to invent your world. First you're living in a house with two adults, and so certain bits of childhood will go by with you listening almost exclusively to adult conversation. And hearing all these problems about the insurance and the rent, I've got nobody to turn to. But any only child will tell you that. You can't grab hold of a sister or a brother. You go out and make friends, but playtime stops when the sun goes down.

42. oldal

I remember stories about Stevie [Wonder] when we were on tours in Europe with his great band. They'd say, 'The motherfucker can see! We walk into a brand new hotel, he picks up his key, heads straight to the elevator.' I found out later that he'd memorized the plan of a Four Seasons Hotel. Five steps up here, two steps to the elevator… It was no big deal to him. He only did it to fuck them up.

367. oldal

And it's amazing as a kid what you can do with a hill if you're willing to risk life and limb.

39. oldal

Brian [Jones] was a woman beater. But the one woman in the world you did not want to try and beat up on was Anita Pallenberg. Every time they had a fight, Brian would come out bandaged and bruised.

220. oldal

And anyway, if you don't make bold moves, you don't get fucking anywhere. You've got to push the limits.

359-60. oldal

[Rastafarianism]
What really turned me on is there's no you and me, there's just I and I. So you've broken down the difference between who you are and who I am. We could never talk, but I and I can talk. We are one.

387. oldal

Sometimes I've woken up with a temperature of one hundred and three, but I'm going to go on. I can handle it; I'll probably sweat it out on stage. And most times I do. I've had terrible fevers going on and I'm totally cured at the end of the show, just because of the nature of the job.

548. oldal

How come I could get a great drum sound back in Denmark Street with one microphone, and now with fifteen microphones I get a drum sound that's like someone shitting on a tin roof? Everybody got carried away with technology and slowly they're swimming back.

577. oldal

'OK, mealtime!' That's what school's about. Forget the geography and history and mathematics, they're teaching you how to work in a factory. When the hooter goes, you eat. For office work or even if you're being trained to be a prime minister, it's the same thing. It's very bad for you to stuff all that crap in at once. Better to have a bit here, a mouthful there, every few hours a bite or two. The human body can deal with it better than shoving a whole load of crap down your gob in an hour.

587-8. oldal

I liked John [Lennon] a lot. He was a silly sod in many ways. I used to criticize him for wearing his guitar too high. They used to wear them up by their chests, which really constricts your movement. It's like being handcuffed. 'Got your fucking guitar under your fucking chin, for Christ's sake. It ain't a violin.' I think they thought it was a cool thing. Gerry & the Pacemakers, all of the Liverpool bands did it. We used to fuck around like that: 'Try a longer strap, John. The longer the strap, the better you play.' […] No wonder you can only rock, no wonder you can't roll.

231. oldal