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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.

Mick Jagger

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.
MICK JAGGER

Force Play Writing Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Behavior Myself Order Society
Everyone knows what their roots are, but you’ve got to explore everywhere. You’ve got to explore the sky too.
MICK JAGGER

Exploration Root Sky Travel Yourself
There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
MICK JAGGER

Alcohol Life One Liner
Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
MICK JAGGER

Attitude Myself Strong Thinking Violence
My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
MICK JAGGER

Happiness Job Mom Myself Sad Work
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.
MICK JAGGER

Goodness Moments Music Raise Rare Stand Yourself
People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
MICK JAGGER

Brain People Rule
You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
MICK JAGGER

Bath Cleaning Day Illusion Yourself
Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
MICK JAGGER

Death End Feeling World
I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
MICK JAGGER

Energy Isolation Myself Need People
I don’t want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn’t bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.
MICK JAGGER

Life Stardom
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.
MICK JAGGER

Different Enjoyment History Kind Music Myself Sing Tradition Type
The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
MICK JAGGER

Achievement Mad Performance Way Yourself
If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
MICK JAGGER

Attention Sing Team Yousrelf
I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
MICK JAGGER

Enjoyment Myself People Thinking Young

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