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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.

Mick Jagger

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
There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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Alcohol Life One Liner
You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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Brilliant Build Practice Sing Yourself
Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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Attitude Behavior Mindset Myself Surprise
I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
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Energy Myself Personal Problem See
I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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Death Satisfaction Sing
I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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Habit Myself Tea
I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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Enjoyment Myself People Thinking Young
I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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Age Music Myself Performance Sing Song Time
I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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Afraid Expression Fear Myself People Thinking Time
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.
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Influence Lyrics Myself Reading Remember Young
I don’t know if rock is dying. I wouldn’t want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
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Change Death Lost Music Myself Stay World
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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Life Stardom
I’m not the businessman. I don’t deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I’ve run out of money, I have to go and make some more.
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Business Deal Man Money Myself Run
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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Better Experience Imagination Run See Writing Yourself
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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Dreams Inspirational Lose Mindset Passion Yourself
You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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Jealous Leadership Yourself
If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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Attention Sing Team Yousrelf
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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Kind Music Myself True
I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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Age Believe Children Encouragement Myself Play Sing
A good thing never ends.
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End Goodness One Liner
Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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Life Pass Philosophy Serious Time
People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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Forget People Thinking 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.
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Country Hard Love Music Myself Serious
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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Obsession People Selfish Understand Yourself Youth
Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
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Money Survive Work
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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Feeling Lost Love Nature See Yourself

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