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.
MICK JAGGERThe 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.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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Too much is never enough.
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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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.
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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 have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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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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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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