I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
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.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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 never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
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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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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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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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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It’s very selfish, but it’s understandable.
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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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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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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 prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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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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You don’t always do the same things you’ve done the night before. That’s what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.
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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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 got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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