You can’t always get what you want.
MICK JAGGERThe only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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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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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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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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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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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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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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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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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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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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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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