Mick Jagger Quotes
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In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.
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Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the time. It's not something that suddenly you do it. It's always there. Suddenly, it's in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you're writing on the piano or a guitar, you don't write in lyrics, on their own. To me it's very boring.
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Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.
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You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex.
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I liked John a lot. He was the one I really got on with the most. We weren't buddy-buddies but we were always friendly. But after the Beatles and the Stones stopped playing clubs, we didn't see each other that much until he separated from Yoko, around 1974. We got really friendly again. And when he went back with Yoko, he went into hibernation ... when I went to visit someone in the Dakota, I'd leave him a note saying: 'I live next door: I know you don't want to see anyone, but if you do, please call.' He never did.
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You can't always get what you want.
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A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.
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You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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All dancing is a replacement for sex.
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I always think it's better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That's not saying I've never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been - it didn't take me that long to realize that it wasn't a good thing.
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I suppose you do think about the time that's allotted to you more than when you were younger. The mortality thing obviously has a stronger pull for you. It's an imminent truth; it's not necessarily a bad thing. You realize - much earlier than my age now - that you won't be able to play for England's football team, just to take a really crass example. So you can't have that life again. Unless you believe in reincarnation or whatever. Reincarnation? That's a whole other question. I find people who talk about that sort of thing in interviews idiotic. And I don't want to go down with them.
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I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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Boys, as far as England was concerned, were always the hard core. And you just know the guys like it. They want to be you. Some might be attracted to you without knowing it.
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It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.
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I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.
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Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.
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Childhood living is easy to do The things you wanted, I bought them for you Graceless lady, you know who I am You know I can't let you slide through my hands Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, couldn't drag me away.
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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.
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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
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Starting off in music, the purpose of it was not to become like well known on the street and be famous. You know, I didn't even think about that part of being famous. Famous for making records, yes, but famous face in a woman's magazine, I never thought of that. I didn't want that.
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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.