Don Henley Quotes

I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

Mick Jagger visited us backstage and told us how much he liked our show. Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts came back too, and they wanted to get their pictures taken with us. Bill Wyman knew our chart positions. I couldn't believe it.

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.'

It doesn't matter how many times I've played 'Brown Sugar', I never get tired of playing it.

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

Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.

I went to see 'Shine a Light,' and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch that man do what he does in front of an audience. It's primarily Mick Jagger, but they're all so confident and relaxed and in love with what they do, and aware of the power of what they do. It's just deeply, deeply attractive.

When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.

I think my legacy should be that when I started in show business, there wasn't no such thing as rock n' roll. When I started with 'Tutti Frutti,' that's when rock really started rocking.

'The Yes Album,' of course, was the album that put Yes' name on the worldwide stage.

Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.

I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

I didn't appreciate Mick Jagger until I got older, and mainly because of the Mick Jagger swagger. He defined that for the world. He was bold and adventurous with it, too - just the ultimate rock star.

One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.

I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force.

I'm more in the Stones camp than the Beatles camp.

The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

Rock and Roll Over' was the first Kiss album I heard, but I was totally oblivious to their whole image and the makeup and all that. I was so out of touch with the wider world.

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

I tend to be a jam-band fan, and I love the Rolling Stones.