Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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’m not the businessman. I don’t deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I’ve run out of money, I have to go and make some more.
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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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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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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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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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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 must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
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I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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You can’t always get what you want.
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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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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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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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