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.
MICK JAGGERToo much is never enough.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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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, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
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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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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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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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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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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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I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
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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.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
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You can’t always get what you want.
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As long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen.
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Too much is never enough.
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