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.
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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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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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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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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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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 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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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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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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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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I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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