You can’t always get what you want.
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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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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I always think it’s better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That’s not saying I’ve never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been – it didn’t take me that long to realize that it wasn’t a good thing.
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I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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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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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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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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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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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