Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
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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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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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 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 should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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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, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
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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.
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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 don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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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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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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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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