As long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen.
MICK JAGGERHe stole my music but he gave me my name.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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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 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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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
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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 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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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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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
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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 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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