As long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen.
MICK JAGGERThank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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 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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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
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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.
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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.
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Too much is never enough.
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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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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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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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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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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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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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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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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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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 are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
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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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