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.
MICK JAGGERMusic 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.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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I don’t really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn’t really worry me even if it’s like out of place. At least it’s relevant.
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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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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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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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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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If 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.
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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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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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