I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
MICK JAGGERThe 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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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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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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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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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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Too much is never enough.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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You can’t always get what you want.
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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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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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You never really know what’s going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they’re going to behave.
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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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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 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.
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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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