I don’t want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn’t bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.
MICK JAGGERYou can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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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As long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen.
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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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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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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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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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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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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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You can’t always get what you want.
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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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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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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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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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