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Mick Jagger

In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They’ve got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.
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Drugs Legal Man Myself Phone See Society
Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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Himself Performance Person Private Stage
In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
MICK JAGGER

Behavior Culture Pretend Yourself
I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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Death Satisfaction Sing
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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Better Experience Imagination Run See Writing Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Goodness Moments Music Raise Rare Stand Yourself
You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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Jealous Leadership Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Greatness Past Place Prison Regret Yourself
I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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Habit Myself Tea
Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
MICK JAGGER

Death End Feeling World
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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Happiness Job Mom Myself Sad Work
You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
MICK JAGGER

Bath Cleaning Day Illusion Yourself
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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Kind Music Myself True
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.
MICK JAGGER

Attitude Audience Behavior Unknown Yourself
Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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Excellence Music Talent Work Yourself
You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
MICK JAGGER

Finding Need Search Try Yourself

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