If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?
KEITH RICHARDSWhy would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.
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I only get ill when I give up drugs. I don’t have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
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Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.
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But I’m not here just to make records and money. I’m here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: “Do you know this feeling?
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing – the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.
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I’ve never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I’d keep myself amused.
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I don’t regret nothing.
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You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
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But I’ve always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I’m here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.
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What’s the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that’s at a normal job – and I ain’t there yet.
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Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.
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Why would you want to be anything else if you’re Mick Jagger?
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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