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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More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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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Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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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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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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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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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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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 don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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