I always think it’s better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That’s not saying I’ve never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been – it didn’t take me that long to realize that it wasn’t a good thing.
MICK JAGGERWhen 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.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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As long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen.
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I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
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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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You can’t always get what you want.
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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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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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A good thing never ends.
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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 don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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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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You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
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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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