The Rolling Stones Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

The Rolling Stones: We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

The Rolling Stones: At the moment I have no time for acting, but when it's all over, I think I'd like to go to drama school. I rather go for the contemporaries like the John Cassavetes film Shadows; there was no script, the whole thing was ad-libbed.

The Rolling Stones: There is no friction between band members about their health, image or what they wear on stage.

How come all the teenies ever wanna do is tongue my Diamond tooth. (Jagger talking about the groups fans)

The Rolling Stones: Basically the thing at the time you used to just try and find girls that would fuck. The rest of it was just..yer know. I mean , it wasn't quite as easy then as it is now. Since the invention of the pill, its become much easier.

Trivia

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards guest starred in the Simpsons episode, "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation."

The Stones are ranked number 4 on Rolling Stone's 100 greatest musical performers of all time.

"Satisfaction" is ranked number 2 on Rolling Stone's list of the 1000 greatest songs ever written. Quite an honor.

Start Me Up is played at the beginning of most NFL games.

As Tears Go By is ranked number 484 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

Mother's Little Helper is ranked number 399 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

Street Fighting Man is ranked number 308 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Tumbling Dice" is ranked number 265 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Ruby Tuesday" is ranked number 248 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"It's Only Rock And Roll" is ranked number 128 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Angie" is ranked number 118 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Miss You" is ranked number 76 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Gimme Shelter" is ranked number 59 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Honky Tonk Woman" is ranked number 28 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Jumpin Jack Flash" is ranked number 16 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

"Satisfaction" is ranked number 2 on rock.com's top 500 classic rock songs.

The Rolling Stones's song Start Me Up is ranked #83 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Rock & Roll.

The Rolling Stones hit #3 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart in 1964 with the release of 12 X 5.

More than 1.500.000 people attended The Rolling Stones Copacabana Beach Show on February 18, 2006. This was the group's biggest audience of their career.

The Rolling Stones were signed with the recording labels of ABKCO, Decca Bootleg, Decca, Alex, Imports, Swingin Pig and Rolling Stones.

When the The Rolling Stones appeared on Ed Sullivan they were not allowed to sing their song Lets Spend the Night Together as it was. Sullivan made them change the lyrics.

The Rolling Stones returned to their music style and proceeded to gain popularity. Selling more records again once they returned to their music the band then gained fame as the greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World.

The Rolling Stones decided they wanted the Bad Boy image and that was their signature ever since the band began.

The Rolling Stones are signed with the recording label of Virgin Records.

The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.

The Rolling Stones appeared many times on the TV series Top of the Pops.

The Rolling Stones song Sympathy for the Devil was the theme song used in the 1998 release of the movie Fallen.

In 2003 The Rolling Stones were executive producers of the film Licks Around The World.

In the 1990 movie hit Goodfellas, The Rolling Stones song Gimme Shelter was in the movie and on they were on posters that advertised the movie.

The Rolling Stones hit song Heaven was used in the box office hit movie Vanilla Sky.

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