It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
MICK JAGGERThe 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.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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I 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.
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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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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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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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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 never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
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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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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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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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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 must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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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 don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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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