I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
MICK JAGGERPeople are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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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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.
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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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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I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
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I’m not the businessman. I don’t deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I’ve run out of money, I have to go and make some more.
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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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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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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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Everyone knows what their roots are, but you’ve got to explore everywhere. You’ve got to explore the sky too.
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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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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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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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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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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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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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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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You can’t always get what you want.
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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
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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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