Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
MICK JAGGERDon’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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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.
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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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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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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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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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I don’t know if rock is dying. I wouldn’t want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
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I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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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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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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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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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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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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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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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.
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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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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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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.
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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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