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.
MICK JAGGERIt’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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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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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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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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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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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 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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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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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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Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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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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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’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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