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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.

Mick Jagger

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
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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Country Hard Love Music Myself Serious
I don’t know if rock is dying. I wouldn’t want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
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Change Death Lost Music Myself Stay World
I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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Afraid Expression Fear Myself People Thinking Time
Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
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Money Survive Work
The elusive nature of love it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it’s just fluttering and it’s gone.
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Feeling Lost Love Nature See Yourself
I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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Energy Isolation Myself Need People
Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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Excellence Music Talent Work Yourself
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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Grace Myself Necessary Relationship Thinking Time
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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Achievement Mad Performance Way Yourself
You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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Brilliant Build Practice Sing Yourself
I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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Attitude Behavior Myself Privacy Time
You can’t always get what you want.
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Achievement One Liner Reality Truth Yourself
You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
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Finding Need Search Try Yourself
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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Dreams Inspirational Lose Mindset Passion Yourself
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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Influence Lyrics Myself Reading Remember Young
Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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Himself Performance Person Private Stage
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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Force Play Writing Yourself
People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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Brain People Rule
I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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Age Music Myself Performance Sing Song Time
It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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Let Go Return Yourself
Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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Death End Feeling World
In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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Behavior Culture Pretend Yourself
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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Goodness Moments Music Raise Rare Stand 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.
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Life Stardom
There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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Alcohol Life One Liner
You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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Bath Cleaning Day Illusion Yourself

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 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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