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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.

Mick Jagger

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.
MICK JAGGER

Force Play Writing Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Interest Live Night Oppose Play Studio Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Different Enjoyment History Kind Music Myself Sing Tradition Type
All dancing is a replacement for sex.
MICK JAGGER

Dance Replacement Sex
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.
MICK JAGGER

Greatness Past Place Prison Regret Yourself
You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
MICK JAGGER

Bath Cleaning Day Illusion Yourself
Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
MICK JAGGER

Life Pass Philosophy Serious Time
He stole my music but he gave me my name.
MICK JAGGER

Himself Music Name. Steal Theft
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.
MICK JAGGER

Kind Music Myself True
You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
MICK JAGGER

Jealous Leadership Yourself
I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
MICK JAGGER

Energy Myself Personal Problem See
The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
MICK JAGGER

Achievement Mad Performance Way Yourself
I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
MICK JAGGER

Career Myself Need Satisfaction Thinking Woman
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.
MICK JAGGER

Attitude Audience Behavior Unknown Yourself
You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
MICK JAGGER

Brilliant Build Practice Sing Yourself
I don’t know if rock is dying. I wouldn’t want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
MICK JAGGER

Change Death Lost Music Myself Stay World

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