Mick Jagger Quotes
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I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.
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I'm very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people... sort of like saying, once you get married you are on the highway to heaven, and quite often it isn't that. I think marriage has always been based on a combination of religious and legal reasons.
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The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
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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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Rock has to absorb other rhythmic forms, because the underlying rhythm of music changes with fashion, and people like to move differently, and the underlying rhythms have to be the ones that people want to dance to.
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I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.
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Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.
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I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.
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Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.
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I was never that interested in business, to be honest. I do the minimal amount of business as possible because I'm not actually interested in it as a thing. But some people are interested in it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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I don't believe in having bands for solo records.
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Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.
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People have different personalities when they're drunk or take heroin, or whatever drugs.
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If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.
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I'm pleased that the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of the expat bankers and their girlfriends that are going to be coming.
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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 believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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I don't want to be my extravert self all the time.
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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 got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.