You never really know what’s going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they’re going to behave.
MICK JAGGERThe elusive nature of love it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it’s just fluttering and it’s gone.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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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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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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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.
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In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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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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I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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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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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.
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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
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