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.
MICK JAGGERI 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.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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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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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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As long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen.
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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 think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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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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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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You never really know what’s going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they’re going to behave.
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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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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.
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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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