My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
MICK JAGGERHe stole my music but he gave me my name.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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 have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It’s very selfish, but it’s understandable.
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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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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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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
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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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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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You don’t always do the same things you’ve done the night before. That’s what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.
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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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Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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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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