There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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 never really know what’s going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they’re going to behave.
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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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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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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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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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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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.
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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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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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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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The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.
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