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.
MICK JAGGERI never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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The elusive nature of love it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it’s just fluttering and it’s gone.
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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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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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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 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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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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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 think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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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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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 can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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