You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
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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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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I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, ‘You should never sing the lyrics out very clearly.
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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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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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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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A good thing never ends.
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I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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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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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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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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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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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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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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