Bobby Keys

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.

If the people dig it, then I dig it. If the people wanna hear it, then I wanna play it.

It doesn't matter how many times I've played 'Brown Sugar', I never get tired of playing it.

Women hang onto the romanticism of a relationship. But a man compartmentalises it into the past and then gets on with his new life.

If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.