Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the 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 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 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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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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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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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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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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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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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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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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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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Too much is never enough.
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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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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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