You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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 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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You can’t always get what you want.
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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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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.
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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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I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
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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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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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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
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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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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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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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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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