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.
MICK JAGGERI 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.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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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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I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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As long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen.
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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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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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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 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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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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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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I don’t only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn’t want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.
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