I don’t know if rock is dying. I wouldn’t want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
MICK JAGGERAlways as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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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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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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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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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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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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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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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 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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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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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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Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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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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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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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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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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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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Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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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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I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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