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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

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.
MICK JAGGER

Different Enjoyment History Kind Music Myself Sing Tradition Type
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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Care Forget Myself Past Song Trap
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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Finding Need Search Try Yourself
I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
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Energy Myself Personal Problem See
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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Force Play Writing Yourself
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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Exploration Root Sky Travel Yourself
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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Care Face Myself Page
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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Happiness Job Mom Myself Sad Work
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
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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Influence Lyrics Myself Reading Remember Young
Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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Actor Mad Man President
Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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Excellence Music Talent Work Yourself
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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Addiction Drugs heavy Work Yourself
Too much is never enough.
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Enough One Liner
Time is on my side, yes it is.
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Belief Inspirational Myself Side Time
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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Kind Music Myself True

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.

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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.

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