Brandon Flowers Quotes

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'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.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?

This kid's excited because he's with Bad Company and I'm excited because I'm with Chuck Berrys' son.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'

To me, my peers are Bruce Springsteen and Mick Jagger. I'm not talking age-wise, but in terms of careers. Madonna. Those are my peers. And I'm okay with that.

Some guys look better as they get older.

Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.

I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.

I'd like to prove that if you take care of yourself, you can actually not regret the fact that you've become an old-timer, but you can just still improve and actually get better.

We've always prided ourselves on making a record that we want to feel proud of, ones that are hopefully timeless so they can be around for a long time.

I wrote 'Healthy Sick,' from our first LP, when I was 19. I'll happily play it till I'm 91 because it always feels good and truthful.

I show rock and rollers how to grow old gracefully.

Most voices get weaker and frailer. I seem to be getting better with age.

[joking about the length of the Rolling Stones' career] You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

Our band Stereophonics never wanted to release a couple records and be the biggest band in the world for 10 minutes. We always wanted to stand the test of time, and make great music that people would want to listen to and that music lasts. We'd looked up to artists and bands that had big back catalogues.

Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album after album after album, without it seeming like a dead-end street.

I'm listening to a lot of oldies.A lot of Al Green, Marvin Gaye. Luther Vandross... they were some of my icons.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

I love to work. It fascinates me. And I love seeing who's coming up, who's got the charisma to last, who's got the intelligence to move on to other things. I'm so glad now that I'm stuck behind the piano, because when you're getting older it's very hard to waddle around the stage.

If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.

I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.