Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
MICK JAGGERYou can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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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 should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
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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 only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn’t want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.
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I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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Too much is never enough.
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Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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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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I don’t think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It’s not necessarily some state of grace.
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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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You can’t always get what you want.
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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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If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.
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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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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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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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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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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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A good thing never ends.
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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 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 can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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