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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’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.
MICK JAGGER

Business Deal Man Money Myself Run
Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can’t be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that’s always good.
MICK JAGGER

Goodness Moments Music Raise Rare Stand Yourself
Everyone knows what their roots are, but you’ve got to explore everywhere. You’ve got to explore the sky too.
MICK JAGGER

Exploration Root Sky Travel Yourself
I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
MICK JAGGER

Energy Isolation Myself Need People
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
MICK JAGGER

Dreams Inspirational Lose Mindset Passion Yourself
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.
MICK JAGGER

Force Play Writing Yourself
I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
MICK JAGGER

Age Music Myself Performance Sing Song Time
As long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen.
MICK JAGGER

Care Face Myself Page
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.
MICK JAGGER

Influence Lyrics Myself Reading Remember Young
A good thing never ends.
MICK JAGGER

End Goodness One Liner
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.
MICK JAGGER

Greatness Past Place Prison Regret Yourself
Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
MICK JAGGER

Age Growth Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
MICK JAGGER

Energy Myself Personal Problem See
You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
MICK JAGGER

Finding Need Search Try Yourself
Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
MICK JAGGER

Actor Mad Man President
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 JAGGER

Feeling Lost Love Nature See Yourself

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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