In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
MICK JAGGERYou 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.
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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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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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.
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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.
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I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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You can’t always get what you want.
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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 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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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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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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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 think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
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