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.
MICK JAGGERI 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.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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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 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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I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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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 must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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I don’t only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn’t want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.
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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
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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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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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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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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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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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I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
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