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.
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 don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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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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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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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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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 never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
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I don’t really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn’t really worry me even if it’s like out of place. At least it’s relevant.
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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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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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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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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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I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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