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Mick Jagger

I 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.
MICK JAGGER

Grace Myself Necessary Relationship Thinking Time
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.
MICK JAGGER

Goodness Moments Music Raise Rare Stand Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Force Play Writing Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Influence Lyrics Myself Reading Remember Young
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.
MICK JAGGER

Better Experience Imagination Run See Writing Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Feeling Lost Love Nature See Yourself
Too much is never enough.
MICK JAGGER

Enough One Liner
I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
MICK JAGGER

Afraid Expression Fear Myself People Thinking Time
It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
MICK JAGGER

Let Go Return Yourself
Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
MICK JAGGER

Attitude Myself Strong Thinking Violence
I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
MICK JAGGER

Boredom Business Myself Study
Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
MICK JAGGER

Actor Mad Man President
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.
MICK JAGGER

Greatness Past Place Prison Regret Yourself
I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
MICK JAGGER

Choice Comfortable Home Live Myself Preference
Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
MICK JAGGER

Death End Feeling World
The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
MICK JAGGER

Achievement Mad Performance Way Yourself

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