Education Quote by Ron Wood

Ron Wood frames his origin story like a bootleg liner note: vivid, slightly mythic, and anchored in one killer detail - running home from school to catch the Stones on TV. It’s not just nostalgia bait. By outsourcing the first claim to his mum (and to “an article”), he borrows authority while staying modest, as if to say: don’t blame me if this sounds fated, the receipts exist. That little triangulation also hints at how rock biography works: memory becomes narrative, narrative becomes brand.

The second line is the real tell. “Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band” isn’t a fan’s crush; it’s a careerist’s fixation. Wood isn’t describing admiration so much as a long con - a clear-eyed, almost workmanlike ambition to enter the most mythologized machine in British rock. The subtext is that the Rolling Stones were never just a group to him; they were an institution with an open door if you could prove you belonged.

Context matters because Wood did exactly that, but not quickly. He arrived through the apprenticeship route: clubs, graft, Faces, Jeff Beck Group - building credibility until the dream stopped sounding delusional and started sounding inevitable. The quote quietly rewrites what joining a legendary band means. It isn’t destiny; it’s persistence plus proximity plus timing. And it’s also a reminder that in rock culture, the line between fan and future bandmate can be thinner than anyone wants to admit.