I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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.
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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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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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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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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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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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Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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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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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 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, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
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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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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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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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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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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 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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Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
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Too much is never enough.
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I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
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You can’t always get what you want.
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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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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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