The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
MICK JAGGEROnly a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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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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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 can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I’m tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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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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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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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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A good thing never ends.
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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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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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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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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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