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.
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 never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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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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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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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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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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The elusive nature of love it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it’s just fluttering and it’s gone.
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I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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A good thing never ends.
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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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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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I don’t want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn’t bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.
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Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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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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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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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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Too much is never enough.
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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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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 think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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