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 JAGGERMy mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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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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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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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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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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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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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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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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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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The elusive nature of love it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it’s just fluttering and it’s gone.
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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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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 always get what you want.
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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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I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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