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"I am wordless, sad and shocked. Something has gone.
We were like a pack, like a family, we Stones. I just say my prayers for him.
I hope he becomes blessed. I hope he is finding peace; I really want him to.
I wasn't ever really close to him."
Mick Jagger in a statement to the press following the news of Brian's drowning
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Mick Jagger on Brian
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"Brian wasn't really good material to be in the pop business. He was too sensitive to every real slight or perceived slight; just over-sensitive to everything. I think he was a shy person and shy people in show business put themselves at risk. Some people are born shy. He just wanted to be in a Blues band and didn't really think it was going to be show business. Perhaps the biggest ambition he thought of was playing the Marquee on Thursdays. That was the end of it. But, he was quite fluid in the way he talked. He was quite a good communicator at the beginning, though it was in a slightly schoolmaster-ish way. But, he did communicate, which was really needed then because people didn't quite understand what it was all about."
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| Keith Richards on Brian
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| "Brian
was
a
cat
who
could
play
any
instrument.
It
was
like:
'There
it
is.
Music
comes
out
of
it.
If
I
work
at
it
for
a
bit,
I
can
do
it.'
It's
him
on
marimbas
on
"Under
My
Thumb"
and
mellotron
on
quite
a
few
things
on
"Satanic
Majesties".
He
was
the
strings
on
"2,000
Light
Years
From
Home".
Brian
on
mellotron
and
brass
on
"We
Love
You",
all
that
Arabic
riff.
He
was
one
of
those
people
who
are
so
beautiful
in
one
way,
and
such
an
asshole
in
another.
There
was
a
two
year
period
when
the
audience
was
louder
than
us,
all
screaming
teenyboppers.
Brian
had
this
terrible
joke
of
playing
"Popeye
The
Sailor
Man"
in
the
middle
of
anything
because
it
didn't
matter,
nobody
could
hear
shit
anyway.
I'd
be
walking
past
him
on
stage
and
I'd
hear
da-da-da-da-da-da-da."
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Bill Wyman on Brian
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"I felt it was essential to point out what a pioneer Brian was: Brian was the first person in England to play bottleneck guitar when nobody knew what it was. He had continued to develop his interest in different instruments and brought to our attention a great deal we might otherwise have missed. As for his personality, for all his weaknesses and hang-ups, his impertinence and terrible behaviour, he was a pivotal figure. As a symbol of the sixties that helped to shape us, he was entitled to a free pardon."
Excerpted from Bill Wyman's book, "Stone Alone"
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| Charlie
Watts
on Brian |
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"I
can't
really
say
anything
about
Brian.
It's
such
a
personal
thing
and
it's
impossible
to
sum
up
a
friend
cold-bloodedly.
It's
a
great
personal
loss
that
leaves
me
at
a
loss
for
words.
No
matter
what
i
were
to
say,
it
would
not
be
enough." |
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