A good thing never ends.
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.
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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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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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 don’t know if rock is dying. I wouldn’t want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
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I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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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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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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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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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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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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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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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 don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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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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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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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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You can’t always get what you want.
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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 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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