I don’t think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It’s not necessarily some state of grace.
MICK JAGGERI’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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I don’t want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn’t bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.
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I think it’s very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don’t talk about. That’s why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.
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I don’t really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn’t really worry me even if it’s like out of place. At least it’s relevant.
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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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You never really know what’s going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they’re going to behave.
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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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I don’t know if rock is dying. I wouldn’t want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.
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I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, ‘You should never sing the lyrics out very clearly.
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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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I don’t only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn’t want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
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Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
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I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you’ve experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.
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The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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You don’t always do the same things you’ve done the night before. That’s what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.
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I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It’s true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.
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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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