I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
MICK JAGGERI believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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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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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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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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I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It’s true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.
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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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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 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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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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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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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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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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