I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, ‘You should never sing the lyrics out very clearly.
MICK JAGGERI’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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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.
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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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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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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 don’t really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn’t really worry me even if it’s like out of place. At least it’s relevant.
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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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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It’s very selfish, but it’s understandable.
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I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
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