I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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 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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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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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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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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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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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’m not the businessman. I don’t deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I’ve run out of money, I have to go and make some more.
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Too much is never enough.
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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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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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You can’t always get what you want.
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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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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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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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