Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
MICK JAGGERWhen you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can’t force them to like it.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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I always think it’s better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That’s not saying I’ve never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been – it didn’t take me that long to realize that it wasn’t a good thing.
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I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It’s very selfish, but it’s understandable.
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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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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Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can’t be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that’s always good.
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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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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.
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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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