I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
MICK JAGGEREveryone knows what their roots are, but you’ve got to explore everywhere. You’ve got to explore the sky too.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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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.
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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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I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It’s true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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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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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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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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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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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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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.
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I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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