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 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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Too much is never enough.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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I always think it’s better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That’s not saying I’ve never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been – it didn’t take me that long to realize that it wasn’t a good thing.
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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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You can’t always get what you want.
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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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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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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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I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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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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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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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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