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.
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 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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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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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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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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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.
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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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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 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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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 are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
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