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.
MICK JAGGER
Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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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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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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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half 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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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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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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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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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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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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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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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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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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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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