Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
MICK JAGGERAlways as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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Everyone knows what their roots are, but you’ve got to explore everywhere. You’ve got to explore the sky too.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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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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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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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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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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Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
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I don’t know if rock is dying. I wouldn’t want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
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