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.
MICK JAGGERIf 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.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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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 prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
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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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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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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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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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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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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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The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
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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.
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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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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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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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