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.
MICK JAGGEROnly a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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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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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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I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They’ve got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.
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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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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 know if rock is dying. I wouldn’t want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
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I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you’ve experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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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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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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