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.
MICK JAGGERMy secrets must be poetic to be believable.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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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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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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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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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Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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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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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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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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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 don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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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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In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They’ve got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.
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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 have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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