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 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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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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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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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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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
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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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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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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 have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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I 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.
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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 never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
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A good thing never ends.
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