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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More Mick Jagger Quotes
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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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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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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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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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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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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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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 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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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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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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