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 JAGGERI think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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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 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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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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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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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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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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You never really know what’s going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they’re going to behave.
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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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I don’t think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It’s not necessarily some state of grace.
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You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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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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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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