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The 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 Jagger

Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
MICK JAGGER

Actor Mad Man President
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.
MICK JAGGER

Addiction Drugs heavy Work Yourself
A good thing never ends.
MICK JAGGER

End Goodness One Liner
Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
MICK JAGGER

Money Survive Work
I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
MICK JAGGER

Death Satisfaction Sing
When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can’t force them to like it.
MICK JAGGER

Force Play Writing Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Different Enjoyment History Kind Music Myself Sing Tradition Type
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.
MICK JAGGER

Business Deal Man Money Myself Run
Time is on my side, yes it is.
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Belief Inspirational Myself Side Time
My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
MICK JAGGER

Believe Myself Poetry Secret
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
MICK JAGGER

Care Forget Myself Past Song Trap
You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
MICK JAGGER

Jealous Leadership Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Better Experience Imagination Run See Writing Yourself
I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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Moral Myself People Thinking Value
It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
MICK JAGGER

Fame Money Perspective Rich
The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
MICK JAGGER

Achievement Mad Performance Way Yourself

The 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.

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