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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.

Mick Jagger

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.
MICK JAGGER

Force Play Writing Yourself
I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
MICK JAGGER

Choice Comfortable Home Live Myself Preference
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 JAGGER

Goodness Moments Music Raise Rare Stand Yourself
Time is on my side, yes it is.
MICK JAGGER

Belief Inspirational Myself Side Time
I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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Enjoyment Myself People Thinking Young
I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
MICK JAGGER

Energy Isolation Myself Need People
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.
MICK JAGGER

Drugs Legal Man Myself Phone See Society
In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
MICK JAGGER

Behavior Culture Pretend Yourself
I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
MICK JAGGER

Career Myself Need Satisfaction Thinking Woman
The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
MICK JAGGER

Achievement Mad Performance Way Yourself
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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Exploration Root Sky Travel Yourself
You can’t always get what you want.
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Achievement One Liner Reality Truth Yourself
You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
MICK JAGGER

Brilliant Build Practice Sing Yourself
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 JAGGER

Better Goodness Learning Myself Thinking
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.
MICK JAGGER

Grace Myself Necessary Relationship Thinking Time
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.
MICK JAGGER

Addiction Drugs heavy Work Yourself
Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
MICK JAGGER

Life Pass Philosophy Serious Time
You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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Jealous Leadership Yourself
I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
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Boredom Business Myself Study
A good thing never ends.
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End Goodness One Liner
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.
MICK JAGGER

Behavior Myself Order Society
Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
MICK JAGGER

Himself Performance Person Private Stage
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
MICK JAGGER

Care Forget Myself Past Song Trap
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
MICK JAGGER

Dreams Inspirational Lose Mindset Passion Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Life Stardom
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.
MICK JAGGER

Habit Important Myself Stardom Talk Taste
If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
MICK JAGGER

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