Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
MICK JAGGERLose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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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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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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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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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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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 always think it’s better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That’s not saying I’ve never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been – it didn’t take me that long to realize that it wasn’t a good thing.
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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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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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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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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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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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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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.
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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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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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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 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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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
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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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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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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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Too much is never enough.
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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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