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.
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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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
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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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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 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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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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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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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 came into music just because I wanted the bread. It’s true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.
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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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I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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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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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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