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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

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
You can’t always get what you want.
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Achievement One Liner Reality Truth Yourself
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.
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Attitude Audience Behavior Unknown Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Better Goodness Learning Myself Thinking
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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Care Face Myself Page
My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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Believe Myself Poetry Secret
You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
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Finding Need Search Try Yourself
I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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Habit Myself Tea
All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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Dance Replacement Sex
Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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Excellence Music Talent Work Yourself
Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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Attitude Behavior Mindset Myself Surprise
The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
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Achievement Mad Performance Way Yourself
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
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 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 prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
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Choice Comfortable Home Live Myself Preference
If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
MICK JAGGER

Attention Sing Team Yousrelf
It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
MICK JAGGER

Fame Money Perspective Rich
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
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
I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
MICK JAGGER

Boredom Business Myself Study
I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
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Energy Myself Personal Problem See
Too much is never enough.
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Enough One Liner
If you’re really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first.
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Addiction Drugs heavy Work Yourself
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 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.
MICK JAGGER

Life Stardom
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.
MICK JAGGER

Influence Lyrics Myself Reading Remember Young

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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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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