I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
MICK JAGGERAlways as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, ‘You should never sing the lyrics out very clearly.
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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 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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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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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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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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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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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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A good thing never ends.
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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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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 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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I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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