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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.

Mick Jagger

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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Brain People Rule
Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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Age Growth Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
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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Choice Limitation Music Myself Play Preference
Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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Actor Mad Man President
Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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Attitude Myself Strong Thinking Violence
I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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Afraid Expression Fear Myself People Thinking Time
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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Care Forget Myself Past Song Trap
You can’t always get what you want.
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Achievement One Liner Reality Truth Yourself
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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Better Experience Imagination Run See Writing Yourself
In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They’ve got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.
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Drugs Legal Man Myself Phone See Society
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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Interest Live Night Oppose Play Studio Yourself
I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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Age Music Myself Performance Sing Song Time
Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
MICK JAGGER

Attitude Behavior Mindset Myself Surprise
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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Obsession People Selfish Understand Yourself Youth
I think it’s very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don’t talk about. That’s why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.
MICK JAGGER

Habit Important Myself Stardom Talk Taste
The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the early ’60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress.
MICK JAGGER

Behavior Myself Order Society
I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
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Boredom Business Myself Study
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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Different Enjoyment History Kind Music Myself Sing Tradition Type
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.
MICK JAGGER

Country Hard Love Music Myself Serious
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 JAGGER

Force Play Writing Yourself
You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
MICK JAGGER

Finding Need Search Try Yourself
My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
MICK JAGGER

Believe Myself Poetry Secret
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 JAGGER

Greatness Past Place Prison Regret Yourself
Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
MICK JAGGER

Alone Attention Ego Enough Leaving Ourselves Thankful
I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
MICK JAGGER

Energy Isolation Myself Need People
You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
MICK JAGGER

Jealous Leadership Yourself
He stole my music but he gave me my name.
MICK JAGGER

Himself Music Name. Steal Theft

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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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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