Everyone knows what their roots are, but you’ve got to explore everywhere. You’ve got to explore the sky too.
MICK JAGGERThere’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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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I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
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Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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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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You don’t always do the same things you’ve done the night before. That’s what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.
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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 don’t only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn’t want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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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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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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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 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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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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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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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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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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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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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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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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I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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