It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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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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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.
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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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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.
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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 don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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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.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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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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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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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 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 have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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