Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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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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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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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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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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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 think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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I 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.
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I don’t want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn’t bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.
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You can’t always get what you want.
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I’m not the businessman. I don’t deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I’ve run out of money, I have to go and make some more.
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I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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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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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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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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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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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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I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
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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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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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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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I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I’m tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.
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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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