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.
MICK JAGGERAll dancing is a replacement for sex.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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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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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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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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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My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
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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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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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I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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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 love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
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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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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.
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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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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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