Mick Taylor Quotes

The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It’s not really so much their musical ability, it’s just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.

These days there’s so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.

The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as much as you do.

The Blues scene now is international. In the ’50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the ’60s onwards it changed.

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues.

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I’ve got no idea.