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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.

Mick Jagger

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
You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
MICK JAGGER

Brilliant Build Practice Sing Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Criticism Mindset Myself Place Worry
The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
MICK JAGGER

Achievement Mad Performance Way Yourself
In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
MICK JAGGER

Behavior Culture Pretend Yourself
My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
MICK JAGGER

Believe Myself Poetry Secret
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.
MICK JAGGER

Addiction Drugs heavy Work Yourself
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
I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
MICK JAGGER

Afraid Expression Fear Myself People Thinking Time
My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
MICK JAGGER

Happiness Job Mom Myself Sad Work
I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
MICK JAGGER

Energy Myself Personal Problem See
I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, ‘You should never sing the lyrics out very clearly.
MICK JAGGER

Influence Lyrics Myself Reading Remember Young
I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
MICK JAGGER

Enjoyment Myself People Thinking Young
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
Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
MICK JAGGER

Age Growth Philosophy Wisdom 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.
MICK JAGGER

Better Experience Imagination Run See Writing Yourself

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