Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
MICK JAGGERYou have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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 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.
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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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I don’t think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It’s not necessarily some state of grace.
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You can’t always get what you want.
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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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I don’t really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn’t really worry me even if it’s like out of place. At least it’s relevant.
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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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A good thing never ends.
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I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I’m tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.
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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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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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In 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.
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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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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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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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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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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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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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I 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.
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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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