I don’t know if rock is dying. I wouldn’t want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
MICK JAGGERI think it’s very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don’t talk about. That’s why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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.
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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 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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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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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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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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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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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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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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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’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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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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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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