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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 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
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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Country Hard Love Music Myself Serious
I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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Age Believe Children Encouragement Myself Play Sing
A good thing never ends.
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End Goodness 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.
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Business Deal Man Money Myself Run
I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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Afraid Expression Fear Myself People Thinking Time
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
My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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Believe Myself Poetry Secret
There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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Alcohol Life One Liner
Time is on my side, yes it is.
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Belief Inspirational Myself Side Time
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
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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Choice Limitation Music Myself Play Preference
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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Behavior Myself Order Society
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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Feeling Lost Love Nature See Yourself
Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
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Alone Attention Ego Enough Leaving Ourselves Thankful
Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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Himself Performance Person Private Stage

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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