I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the early ’60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress.
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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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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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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
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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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You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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I’m not the businessman. I don’t deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I’ve run out of money, I have to go and make some more.
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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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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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