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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.

Mick Jagger

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
Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
MICK JAGGER

Excellence Music Talent Work Yourself
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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Care Forget Myself Past Song Trap
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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Behavior Myself Order Society
I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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Age Music Myself Performance Sing Song 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
I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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Afraid Expression Fear Myself People Thinking Time
You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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Bath Cleaning Day Illusion 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
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.
MICK JAGGER

Habit Important Myself Stardom Talk Taste
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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Greatness Past Place Prison Regret Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Country Hard Love Music Myself Serious
Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
MICK JAGGER

Actor Mad Man President
People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
MICK JAGGER

Brain People Rule
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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Addiction Drugs heavy Work Yourself
My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
MICK JAGGER

Happiness Job Mom Myself Sad Work

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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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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