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.
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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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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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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Too much is never enough.
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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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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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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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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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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 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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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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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 got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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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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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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