I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It’s true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.
MICK JAGGERAlways as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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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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My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
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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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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can’t be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that’s always good.
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In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They’ve got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.
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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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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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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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I don’t want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn’t bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.
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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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Too much is never enough.
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