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I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.

Mick Jagger

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
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Boredom Business Myself Study
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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Change Death Lost Music Myself Stay 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
Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
MICK JAGGER

Alone Attention Ego Enough Leaving Ourselves Thankful
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
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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Influence Lyrics Myself Reading Remember Young
Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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Actor Mad Man President
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
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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Care Forget Myself Past Song Trap
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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Choice Limitation Music Myself Play Preference
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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Different Enjoyment History Kind Music Myself Sing Tradition Type
Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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Life Pass Philosophy Serious Time
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
I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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Death Satisfaction Sing
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.
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Habit Important Myself Stardom Talk Taste
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

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