Top 40 Ronnie Wood Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “When I’m left on my own I’m my own worst enemy.”

— Ronnie Wood

2. “I find it hard to get old and hard to say, ‘No.’”

— Ronnie Wood

3. “I can’t be left unsupervised.”

— Ronnie Wood

4. “I’m a Gemini, so I have a great time with the other guy.”

— Ronnie Wood

5. “I still feel 29. Maybe I should act my age more, but I just can’t.”

— Ronnie Wood

6. “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.”

— Ronnie Wood

7. “What can I say, I’m an alcoholic. It’s what I do.”

— Ronnie Wood

8. “I’m terrible with money, absolutely awful. I’m always losing it.”

— Ronnie Wood

9. “I had a fiery affair with George Harrison’s wife, Pattie Boyd.”

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10. “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.”

— Ronnie Wood

11. “All of us can’t wait to get out there whatever way.”

— Ronnie Wood

12. “I used to worry, ‘I’ve lost my family.’ They hated me for a while, but they’re very resilient.”

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

— Ronnie Wood

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

— Ronnie Wood

15. “In my family, they were all big boozers.”

— Ronnie Wood

16. “Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.”

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

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18. “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.”

— Ronnie Wood

19. “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.”

— Ronnie Wood

20. “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.”

— Ronnie Wood

21. “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.”

— Ronnie Wood

22. “All my life there’s always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend.”

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23. “I love to go to Ireland just to relax.”

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24. “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.”

— Ronnie Wood

25. “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.”

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26. “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.”

— Ronnie Wood

27. “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.”

— Ronnie Wood

28. “When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I’m a one-woman man.”

— Ronnie Wood

29. “I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, ‘Hell, is it too late?’”

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30. “You don’t make solo albums to have hits.”

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31. “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!”

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32. “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!”

— Ronnie Wood

33. “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.”

— Ronnie Wood

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

— Ronnie Wood

35. “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.”

— Ronnie Wood

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

— Ronnie Wood

37. “Regina Spektor is great. I can’t wait to see what more she’s capable of.”

— Ronnie Wood

38. “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.”

— Ronnie Wood

39. “I always want to rock.”

— Ronnie Wood

40. “Let’s face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There’s no arguing really, is there?”

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41. “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.”

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42. “I’m still digging long-established bands like U2 – they’re new to me!”

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

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44. “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.”

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45. “Married life is absolutely brilliant.”

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46. “I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it’s happening more and more.”

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

— Ronnie Wood

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

— Ronnie Wood