I think it’s very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don’t talk about. That’s why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.
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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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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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 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.
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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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A good thing never ends.
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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
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I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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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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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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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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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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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.
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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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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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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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.
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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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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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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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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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