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 JAGGERI 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.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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Too much is never enough.
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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.
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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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As long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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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.
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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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Everyone knows what their roots are, but you’ve got to explore everywhere. You’ve got to explore the sky too.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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