Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
MICK JAGGERYou can’t always get what you want.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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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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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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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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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 think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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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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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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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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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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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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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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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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