Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
MICK JAGGERI 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.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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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You can’t always get what you want.
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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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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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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 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 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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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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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 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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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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As long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen.
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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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