Ronnie Wood Quotes:

I still feel 29. Maybe I should act my age more, but I just can't.

source: - "The Rolling Stones: that 50-year itch..." by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2011.

Topics: Age, Should, Feels

I can't be left unsupervised.

source: - "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2001.

Topics: Left, I Can

I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren't as bad as they seem.

Topics: Perspective, Cracks, Use, Middle Ground

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

Topics: Echoes, Hip Hop, Soul, Modern Music

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Topics: Music, Running, Kind, Musical Life, Writing Music

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!

Topics: Music, Art, Taken

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

Topics: Faces, Arguing, Paint

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.

source: - "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

Topics: Iron, People, Trying

Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

source: - "The Do Ron Ron" By Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

Topics: Time, Growing Up, Vices

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

source: - "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2001.

Topics: Worst Enemy, My Own, Left, My Own Worst Enemy

All of us can't wait to get out there whatever way.

source: - "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2001.

Topics: Waiting, Way

During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, "Hang on a minute - I can paint." I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.

source: - "Wood and it be good". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2007.

Topics: Hurt, New York, Paint

I'm a Gemini, so I have a great time with the other guy.

source: - "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

Topics: Time, Guy, Other Guys

We'll rock till we drop. We have all agreed this won't be the last time. Everyone's rocking.

Topics: Retirement, Rocks, Lasts

People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!

Topics: Clever, Two Sides, People, Wrong Impression

I always want to rock.

Topics: Rocks, Want

I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.

Topics: School, Fans, Inspired, Impressionists, School Days

Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.

Topics: Nice, Supportive, Tonight

I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.

Topics: Risk, Faults, Management

When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.

Topics: Spiritual, Real, Painting, Good Spiritual

I can't go along with all that shit about having to give everything up. I'd always say to them in the clinic I'm still going to have a Guinness, I'm still going to have a glass of wine. They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.

source: - "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2001.

Topics: Coffee, Lines, Cups, Cigs, Coffee Cup

With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before.

Topics: Night, Gigs, Prove

Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.

Topics: Tools, Records, Laptops

I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses.

Topics: Horse, Landscape, Paint

I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

Topics: Growing Up, Thinking, Too Late

I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

Topics: Art, Thinking, Numbers

Married life is absolutely brilliant.

Topics: Brilliant, Married, Life Is, Married Life

The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was... good.

Topics: Dope, Alcohol, Lasts

I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.

Topics: Wife, Affair, Fiery

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.

Topics: Music, Kids, White

All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals.

source: - "Wood and it be good" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2007.

Topics: Brother, Land, Water, Barges, Dry Land

Amazing, the poisons I used to put in my body. I used to love it.

source: - "Ronnie Wood: Second life". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

Topics: Poison, Body, Used

I'm terrible with money, absolutely awful. I'm always losing it.

Topics: Money, Awful, Losing, Always Losing

Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.

Topics: White, Invasion, British, British Invasion

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

Topics: Music, Art, Taken

We're great, Jo and me. We're pals, and I guess sex has a lot to do with it. She's also brilliant at clearing a room. So protective, so devoted. I can't believe how much she loves me.

source: - "The Do Ron Ron" By Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

Topics: Sex, Believe, Pals, Brilliant Ideas, Clearing

I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.

source: - "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

Topics: Friends, Two, Dublin

I used to worry, 'I've lost my family.' They hated me for a while, but they're very resilient.

Topics: Worry, My Family, Resilient

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

source: - "The do Ron Ron". Interview with Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

Topics: Albums, Solo

I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more.

Topics: Nice, Journalist, Happenings

I find it hard to get old and hard to say, 'No.'

Topics: Hard

I have a life coach out with me on tour, a very nice guy from L.A. He just prepares me for each day.

source: - "Wood and it be good" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2007.

Topics: Nice, Guy, Each Day, Life Coach, Nice Guy

My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.

Topics: Uncles, Dad, Two

Regina Spektor is great. I can't wait to see what more she's capable of.

Topics: Waiting, I Can, Capable

All my life there's always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend.

Topics: Girlfriend, Wife, Ex Wife

I'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me!

Topics: Long, Digging, Band

When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man.

source: - "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

Topics: Men, Saws, Firsts, Hairstyles

My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

source: - "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

Topics: Real, Self, Creative

I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.

source: - "Musicians, actors and celebrities react to news of Prince's death", www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2016.

Topics: Sleep, Good Friend, Player, Sleep Well

In my family, they were all big boozers, but they all lived to ripe old ages.

source: - "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2001.

Topics: My Family, Bigs

I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now.

Topics: Thinking, Trying, Body

I love to go to Ireland just to relax.

Topics: Love, Relax, Ireland

What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.

Topics: Alcoholics