In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
MICK JAGGERPeople 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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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 don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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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 must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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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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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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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 think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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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 don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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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.
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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A good thing never ends.
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