I try to play the best I can every time I play. But there’s just some folks that seem to draw a little bit of that extra special out of you. Bobby Keys Read Quote
We just get up there and play rock-and-roll music, man. Everybody sweats and has a good time. Bobby Keys Read Quote
When you’re not on the payroll, and you want to continue the Beverly Wilshire lifestyle, but you’re only geared for a Holiday Inn existence, things are gonna catch up to you. Bobby Keys Read Quote
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. Bobby Keys Read Quote
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. Bobby Keys Read Quote
It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve played ‘Brown Sugar’, I never get tired of playing it. Bobby Keys Read Quote
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. Bobby Keys Read Quote
You got to realize that the vision, the image, according to 1964 U.S. rock and roll standards, was mohair suit and tie, and nicey-nicey ol’ boy next door. Bobby Keys Read Quote
I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin’ the right notes or the wrong notes. Bobby Keys Read Quote