Mick Jones Quotes

#1. I learned that every choice has an outcome and I learned that holding on to bitterness is a poison that eats away at you from the inside.

Mia Sheridan

#2. You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.

Mick Jones

#3. According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally, it's even the cause of death.

Rod Stryker

#4. When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.

Matt Nathanson

#5. A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.

Eleanor Dark

#6. I remember thinking about how fun it would be to be a reporter. I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator. It depends on what kind of stories you're reporting, but it's very similar. You're finding out the truth.

Katia Winter

#7. The sight of me puffing and straining apparently amused him to no end.

Ilona Andrews

#8. The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.

Mick Jones

#9. I want to change the bad boy image that has stuck for a bit because I don't think I am at all how I have been portrayed. I would like that to change because it's awful to hear and read what is said of you.

Luis Suarez

#10. There is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#11. A defining moment takes a long time to get over, if you ever do.

Mick Jones

#12. I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se.

Mick Jones

#13. Peace lets us to be more pleasant.

Debasish Mridha

#14. And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.

Khaled Hosseini

#15. People will write whatever they want and make up whatever they want anyway.

Mick Jones

#16. Rock n' roll means so much more to people; it enriches the culture. Also, it inspires people; there's no half-feeling. When I first got into it, I was inspired by people who had come before me, and I found myself in the position of handing that on.

Mick Jones

#17. If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#18. A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.

Todd Haynes

#19. The silence was suddenly too much. He hit the CD button on the car's radio. Brian Jones's sitar riff opened for Charlie Watts tribal-like drumbeat thundering from the speakers. Keith Richards' jangly guitar joined in, followed by Mick singing about seeing a red door that he wanted to paint black.

Glenn Rolfe

#20. I think the seeds of my love were planted there, in the ground that my father's madness harrowed.

Geraldine Brooks

#21. I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.

Alan Jay Lerner

#22. The groups I liked, you really looked forward to their albums and you rushed to get them the first day, because you knew it was going to be different than what they did before. The records told you what that group was into at that time.

Mick Jones

#23. An I'll never forget the smile on my face
cos I knew where you would be
An if you're in the Crown tonight
Have a drink on me
But go easy...step lightly...stay free
-- "Stay Free

Mick Jones

#24. I've never moved. I've never ever wanted to.

Mick Jones