The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
MICK JAGGERThe only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
MICK JAGGERI 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.
MICK JAGGERI 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.
MICK JAGGERI think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
MICK JAGGERI 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.
MICK JAGGERIn England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They’ve got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.
MICK JAGGERYou 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.
MICK JAGGERIt’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
MICK JAGGERThe 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.
MICK JAGGERI 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.
MICK JAGGERIn England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
MICK JAGGERI think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
MICK JAGGERYou can’t be jealous and be a leader.
MICK JAGGERThe 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.
MICK JAGGERI don’t only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn’t want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.
MICK JAGGERPeople are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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