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Mick Jagger

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.
MICK JAGGER

Goodness Moments Music Raise Rare Stand Yourself
Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
MICK JAGGER

Excellence Music Talent Work Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Obsession People Selfish Understand Yourself Youth
In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
MICK JAGGER

Behavior Culture Pretend Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Force Play Writing Yourself
I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
MICK JAGGER

Death Satisfaction Sing
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 JAGGER

Better Experience Imagination Run See Writing Yourself
Too much is never enough.
MICK JAGGER

Enough One Liner
I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
MICK JAGGER

Energy Isolation Myself Need People
Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
MICK JAGGER

Himself Performance Person Private Stage
There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
MICK JAGGER

Alcohol Life One Liner
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.
MICK JAGGER

Business Deal Man Money Myself Run
You can’t always get what you want.
MICK JAGGER

Achievement One Liner Reality Truth Yourself
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 JAGGER

Habit Important Myself Stardom Talk Taste
Everyone knows what their roots are, but you’ve got to explore everywhere. You’ve got to explore the sky too.
MICK JAGGER

Exploration Root Sky Travel Yourself
You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
MICK JAGGER

Bath Cleaning Day Illusion Yourself

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