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 JAGGERNormally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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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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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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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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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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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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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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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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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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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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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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