Dusty Hill Quotes

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

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

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.

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

Nobody put the camera on the background singers who were singing. It was on Stevie Wonder. It was on Elton John. It was on whoever was the lead singer out front. We were 20 feet from stardom.

I remember Robert Plant coming backstage after the first show saying, 'Hey, boys, I should be opening for you.' That felt pretty good.

The Stones are great and always have been. Jagger's lyrics are just amazing. Right on the ball every time.

I heard Smokey Robinson was singing one of my songs on the radio the other day. Being in the presence of Mavis Staples, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott - Stevie Wonder joined me on stage recently. That blows me away.

Eminem heard my music, and he didn't wanna take a meeting with me.

Imagine a music business where all the music press talked about, all day long, was cover bands of old rock and pop groups. Beatles cover bands, Rolling Stones cover bands, The Who cover bands, Led Zeppelin cover bands. Cover bands, cover bands, everywhere you go.

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.

Being a rock star rocks.

Bonnie Raitt and Lynyrd Skynyrd were two people I went on the road with.

It's an honor that people give a crap about us. We're in a rock band; we're not supposed to be treated with any respect.

I have a gut instinctive feeling that I will be as massive as Madonna, as massive as Michael Jackson... Whitney Houston, sure.

I was actually discovered by Kai Millard and Stevie Wonder.

At 17, I wanted to be a rock star.

At the 'L.A. Times,' I always wanted to write about artists I thought were meaningful. So I interviewed Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, U2, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Eminem, White Stripes. And I could understand how almost everybody I interviewed had a sense of artistry.

When you play a show or festival, people know what they're getting; they want it. Then you're thrown onto a show where people are watching TV in their houses, and whether they ask for it or not, we're being played in front of them. There's a lot of negative feedback.

What's so crazy is I always looked at Jay Z and guys on the caliber of Jay Z like they just the big dogs. I didn't think they listen to my music or even know who I am.

I couldn't sing like Mick Jagger, not that I wanted to.