People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
MICK JAGGERMy mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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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You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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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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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you’ve experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.
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I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I’m tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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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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The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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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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