You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
MICK JAGGERI 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.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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 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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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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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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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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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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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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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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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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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
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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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I think it’s very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don’t talk about. That’s why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.
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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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