Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
MICK JAGGERThe 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.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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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 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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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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I’m not the businessman. I don’t deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I’ve run out of money, I have to go and make some more.
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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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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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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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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