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.
MICK JAGGERMusic 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.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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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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Everyone knows what their roots are, but you’ve got to explore everywhere. You’ve got to explore the sky too.
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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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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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Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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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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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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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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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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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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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