If you’re really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first.
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More Mick Jagger Quotes
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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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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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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I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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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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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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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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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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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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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
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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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I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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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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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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You can’t always get what you want.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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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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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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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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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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