Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the 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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The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
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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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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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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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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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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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Too much is never enough.
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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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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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I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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I don’t really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn’t really worry me even if it’s like out of place. At least it’s relevant.
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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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You can’t always get what you want.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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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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.
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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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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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