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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

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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Brilliant Build Practice Sing Yourself
I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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Habit Myself Tea
In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They’ve got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.
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Drugs Legal Man Myself Phone See Society
I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
MICK JAGGER

Attitude Behavior Myself Privacy Time
Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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Attitude Myself Strong Thinking Violence
Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
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Money Survive Work
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 think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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Afraid Expression Fear Myself People Thinking Time
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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Dreams Inspirational Lose Mindset Passion 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
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
Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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Attitude Behavior Mindset Myself Surprise
He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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Himself Music Name. Steal Theft
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
There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
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Alcohol Life One Liner
In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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Behavior Culture Pretend Yourself
Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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Excellence Music Talent Work Yourself
I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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Moral Myself People Thinking Value
It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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Let Go Return Yourself
I don’t think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It’s not necessarily some state of grace.
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Grace Myself Necessary Relationship Thinking Time
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, 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
I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
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Boredom Business Myself Study
You don’t always do the same things you’ve done the night before. That’s what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.
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Interest Live Night Oppose Play Studio Yourself
People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
MICK JAGGER

Forget People Thinking Yourself
I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
MICK JAGGER

Death Satisfaction Sing
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.
MICK JAGGER

Choice Limitation Music Myself Play Preference

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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