I don’t know if rock is dying. I wouldn’t want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
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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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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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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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
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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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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’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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Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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Too much is never enough.
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I don’t only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn’t want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.
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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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