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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 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 JAGGER

Better Goodness Learning Myself Thinking
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
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
MICK JAGGER

Care Forget Myself Past Song Trap
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.
MICK JAGGER

Attitude Audience Behavior Unknown 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.
MICK JAGGER

Force Play Writing Yourself
I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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Afraid Expression Fear Myself People Thinking Time
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.
MICK JAGGER

Better Experience Imagination Run See Writing Yourself
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
Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
MICK JAGGER

Alone Attention Ego Enough Leaving Ourselves Thankful
It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
MICK JAGGER

Let Go Return Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Greatness Past Place Prison Regret Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Country Hard Love Music Myself Serious
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.
MICK JAGGER

Habit Important Myself Stardom Talk Taste
Time is on my side, yes it is.
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Belief Inspirational Myself Side Time
I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
MICK JAGGER

Habit Myself Tea
I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
MICK JAGGER

Attitude Behavior Myself Privacy Time

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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