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 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.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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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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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
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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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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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There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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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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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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I don’t want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn’t bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.
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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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