In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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.
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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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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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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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You can’t always get what you want.
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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I don’t know if rock is dying. I wouldn’t want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
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I 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.
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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.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
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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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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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