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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 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.
MICK JAGGER

Different Enjoyment History Kind Music Myself Sing Tradition Type
Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can’t be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that’s always good.
MICK JAGGER

Goodness Moments Music Raise Rare Stand Yourself
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 JAGGER

Change Death Lost Music Myself Stay World
I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
MICK JAGGER

Boredom Business Myself Study
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
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.
MICK JAGGER

Behavior Myself Order Society
In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
MICK JAGGER

Behavior Culture Pretend Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Choice Limitation Music Myself Play Preference
It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
MICK JAGGER

Let Go Return Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Life Stardom
My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
MICK JAGGER

Happiness Job Mom Myself Sad Work
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
You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
MICK JAGGER

Finding Need Search Try Yourself
You don’t always do the same things you’ve done the night before. That’s what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.
MICK JAGGER

Interest Live Night Oppose Play Studio Yourself
Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
MICK JAGGER

Actor Mad Man President
You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
MICK JAGGER

Bath Cleaning Day Illusion 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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