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 JAGGERAs long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
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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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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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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 got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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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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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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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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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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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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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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