I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
MICK JAGGERIt’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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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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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.
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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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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My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
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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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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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