Tobias Forge Quotes

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

When I grew up, I had influences as diverse as Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix.

I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards, the John Paul Jones of my generation.

I never wanted to be Keith Richards or Jimmy Page.

I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.

I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.

I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

The Rolling Stones were one of the best bands ever, and 'Sticky Fingers' is one of the best rock albums I've ever heard.

But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

Everything I know, I stole directly from Ace Frehley, Angus Young, and Keith Richards. That's how you learn.

I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.

Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.

I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

I was a big Guns N' Roses fan when I was seven. My friend who lived across the street had long dark curly hair and I had long blonde hair, so I'd dress up as Axl and she'd be Slash, and we'd rock out in front of the mirror singing 'Patience.'

My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.

My favorite guitar players are Chuck Berry and Brian May and Dave Davies from the Kinks.

You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do.

I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones.

The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.

There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.

That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.