Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
MICK JAGGEROf course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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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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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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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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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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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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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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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.
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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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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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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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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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