I don’t want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn’t bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.
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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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.
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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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You can’t always get what you want.
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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’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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I don’t only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn’t want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.
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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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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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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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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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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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Everyone knows what their roots are, but you’ve got to explore everywhere. You’ve got to explore the sky too.
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