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.
MICK JAGGERI 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.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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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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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 must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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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’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 can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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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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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the early ’60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress.
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