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.
MICK JAGGERIn 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.
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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I’m not the businessman. I don’t deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I’ve run out of money, I have to go and make some more.
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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 think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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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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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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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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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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You can’t always get what you want.
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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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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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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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