22 Quotes by Bobby Keys

It's pretty scripted on the road: very organised and compartmentalised, and that's the way it has to be with so many people involved in a Stones tour.

The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.

I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing.

When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.

I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.

I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.

I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me away to a drummer when I was 15 years old.

I play more rhythmically than I do a lot of notes.

I play with toys. I have one plane that travels with me. It travels with the equipment.