I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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.
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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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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 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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When 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.
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The elusive nature of love it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it’s just fluttering and it’s gone.
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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, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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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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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I’m tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.
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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 never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
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