You can’t always get what you want.
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.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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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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The 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.
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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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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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A good thing never ends.
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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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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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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 think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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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, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
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