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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.

Mick Jagger

I don’t know if rock is dying. I wouldn’t want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
MICK JAGGER

Change Death Lost Music Myself Stay World
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It’s very selfish, but it’s understandable.
MICK JAGGER

Obsession People Selfish Understand Yourself Youth
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
MICK JAGGER

Care Forget Myself Past Song Trap
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.
MICK JAGGER

Different Enjoyment History Kind Music Myself Sing Tradition Type
I think it’s very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don’t talk about. That’s why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.
MICK JAGGER

Habit Important Myself Stardom Talk Taste
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
Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
MICK JAGGER

Believe Hope Sight
Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
MICK JAGGER

Money Survive Work
I don’t think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It’s not necessarily some state of grace.
MICK JAGGER

Grace Myself Necessary Relationship Thinking Time
I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
MICK JAGGER

Career Myself Need Satisfaction Thinking Woman
I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
MICK JAGGER

Boredom Business Myself Study
Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
MICK JAGGER

Himself Performance Person Private Stage
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
Too much is never enough.
MICK JAGGER

Enough One Liner
I don’t really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn’t really worry me even if it’s like out of place. At least it’s relevant.
MICK JAGGER

Criticism Mindset Myself Place Worry
I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
MICK JAGGER

Attitude Behavior Myself Privacy Time
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.
MICK JAGGER

Feeling Lost Love Nature See Yourself
In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
MICK JAGGER

Behavior Culture Pretend Yourself
Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
MICK JAGGER

Excellence Music Talent Work Yourself
Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
MICK JAGGER

Alone Attention Ego Enough Leaving Ourselves Thankful
I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
MICK JAGGER

Age Music Myself Performance Sing Song Time
People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
MICK JAGGER

Forget People Thinking Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Behavior Myself Order Society
People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
MICK JAGGER

Brain People Rule
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.
MICK JAGGER

Force Play Writing Yourself
I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
MICK JAGGER

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.
MICK JAGGER

Better Experience Imagination Run See Writing Yourself

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