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.
MICK JAGGERIf 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.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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Too much is never enough.
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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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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
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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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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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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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I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
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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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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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I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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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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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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In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They’ve got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.
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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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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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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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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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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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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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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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You don’t always do the same things you’ve done the night before. That’s what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.
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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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