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.
MICK JAGGERYou don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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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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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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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I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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As long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen.
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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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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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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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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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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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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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