I don’t want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn’t bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.
MICK JAGGERAnarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It’s true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.
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You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
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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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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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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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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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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.
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I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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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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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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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 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 should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
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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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