It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
MICK JAGGEREveryone knows what their roots are, but you’ve got to explore everywhere. You’ve got to explore the sky too.
More Mick Jagger Quotes
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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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I don’t want to be my extrovert self all the time.
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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
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You can’t always get what you want.
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I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
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Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.
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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 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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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
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You can’t be jealous and be a leader.
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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 must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.
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Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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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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I don’t really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn’t really worry me even if it’s like out of place. At least it’s relevant.
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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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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You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.
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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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My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
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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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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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Don’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
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