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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.

Mick Jagger

You never really know what’s going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they’re going to behave.
MICK JAGGER

Attitude Audience Behavior Unknown 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
Everyone knows what their roots are, but you’ve got to explore everywhere. You’ve got to explore the sky too.
MICK JAGGER

Exploration Root Sky Travel Yourself
People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
MICK JAGGER

Brain People Rule
You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
MICK JAGGER

Finding Need Search Try Yourself
Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
MICK JAGGER

Money Survive Work
I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
MICK JAGGER

Moral Myself People Thinking Value
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.
MICK JAGGER

Interest Live Night Oppose Play Studio Yourself
You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
MICK JAGGER

Brilliant Build Practice Sing Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Choice Limitation Music Myself Play Preference
The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
MICK JAGGER

Achievement Mad Performance Way Yourself
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
You can’t always get what you want.
MICK JAGGER

Achievement One Liner Reality Truth Yourself
I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
MICK JAGGER

Habit Myself Tea
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 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

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