My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
MICK JAGGERTime is on my side, yes it is.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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.
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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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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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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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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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A good thing never ends.
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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
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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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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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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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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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