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 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.
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I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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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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 think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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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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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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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 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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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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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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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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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 have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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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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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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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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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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