You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
MICK JAGGERI prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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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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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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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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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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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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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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I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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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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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.
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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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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 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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You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They’ve got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.
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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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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.
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