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 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.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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 people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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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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You don’t always do the same things you’ve done the night before. That’s what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.
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Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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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 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 like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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You can’t always get what you want.
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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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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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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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