Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
MICK JAGGERI 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.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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 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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Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
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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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I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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Too much is never enough.
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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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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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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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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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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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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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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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