In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
MICK JAGGERAlways as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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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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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
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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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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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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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You can’t always get what you want.
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I don’t know if rock is dying. I wouldn’t want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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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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