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 JAGGERLose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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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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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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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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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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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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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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Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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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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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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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 think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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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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