He stole my music but he gave me my name.
MICK JAGGERPeople think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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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I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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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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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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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 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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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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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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You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
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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 don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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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 always think it’s better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That’s not saying I’ve never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been – it didn’t take me that long to realize that it wasn’t a good thing.
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