You can’t always get what you want.
MICK JAGGERLose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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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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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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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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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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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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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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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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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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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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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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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
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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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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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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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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 think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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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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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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The elusive nature of love it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it’s just fluttering and it’s gone.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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