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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.

Mick Jagger

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.
MICK JAGGER

Choice Limitation Music Myself Play Preference
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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Grace Myself Necessary Relationship Thinking Time
Time is on my side, yes it is.
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Belief Inspirational Myself Side Time
I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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Death Satisfaction Sing
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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Addiction Drugs heavy Work Yourself
My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
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Happiness Job Mom Myself Sad Work
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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Obsession People Selfish Understand Yourself Youth
If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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Attention Sing Team Yousrelf
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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Criticism Mindset Myself Place Worry
Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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Himself Performance Person Private Stage
Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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Life Pass Philosophy Serious Time
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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Different Enjoyment History Kind Music Myself Sing Tradition Type
In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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Behavior Culture Pretend Yourself
You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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Bath Cleaning Day Illusion Yourself
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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Force Play Writing Yourself
Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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Attitude Myself Strong Thinking Violence
Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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Death End Feeling World
I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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Energy Isolation Myself Need People
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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Care Forget Myself Past Song Trap
You can’t always get what you want.
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Achievement One Liner Reality Truth Yourself
I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
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Career Myself Need Satisfaction Thinking Woman
The elusive nature of love it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it’s just fluttering and it’s gone.
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Feeling Lost Love Nature See Yourself
The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
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Achievement Mad Performance Way Yourself
All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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Dance Replacement Sex
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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Greatness Past Place Prison Regret Yourself
It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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Fame Money Perspective Rich
Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can’t be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that’s always good.
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Goodness Moments Music Raise Rare Stand Yourself

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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