Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
MICK JAGGERYou have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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A good thing never ends.
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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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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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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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The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the early ’60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress.
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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 don’t always do the same things you’ve done the night before. That’s what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.
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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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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 want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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