I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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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 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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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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You can’t always get what you want.
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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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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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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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If you’re really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first.
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A good thing never ends.
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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.
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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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