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When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can’t force them to like it.

Mick Jagger

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.
MICK JAGGER

Habit Important Myself Stardom Talk Taste
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.
MICK JAGGER

Criticism Mindset Myself Place Worry
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.
MICK JAGGER

Obsession People Selfish Understand Yourself Youth
As long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen.
MICK JAGGER

Care Face Myself Page
People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
MICK JAGGER

Brain People Rule
My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
MICK JAGGER

Believe Myself Poetry Secret
I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
MICK JAGGER

Enjoyment Myself People Thinking Young
Everyone knows what their roots are, but you’ve got to explore everywhere. You’ve got to explore the sky too.
MICK JAGGER

Exploration Root Sky Travel Yourself
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
MICK JAGGER

Care Forget Myself Past Song Trap
I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
MICK JAGGER

Moral Myself People Thinking Value
A good thing never ends.
MICK JAGGER

End Goodness One Liner
I don’t think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It’s not necessarily some state of grace.
MICK JAGGER

Grace Myself Necessary Relationship Thinking Time
I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
MICK JAGGER

Energy Myself Personal Problem See
In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They’ve got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.
MICK JAGGER

Drugs Legal Man Myself Phone See Society
The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
MICK JAGGER

Achievement Mad Performance Way Yourself
Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
MICK JAGGER

Age Growth Philosophy Wisdom Yourself

When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can’t force them to like it.

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When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can’t force them to like it.

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