I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
MICK JAGGERIf you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, ‘You should never sing the lyrics out very clearly.
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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.
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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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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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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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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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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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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.
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I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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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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Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
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