I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
MICK JAGGERI don’t think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It’s not necessarily some state of grace.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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 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 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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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can’t be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that’s always good.
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Too much is never enough.
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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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I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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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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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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You never really know what’s going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they’re going to behave.
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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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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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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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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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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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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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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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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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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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I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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