Mick Jagger Quotes
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I don't want to be my extravert self all the time.
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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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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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I don't believe in having bands for solo records.
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People have different personalities when they're drunk or take heroin, or whatever drugs.
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Taking drugs on a recreation level is one thing. But taking them while you're working on a stage is, I don't think it was that great. It's the control factor. And the thing about being on stage, you really want to feel that you're sort of in control a lot. It's not a place where you want to be out of control.
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My father was furious with me, absolutely furious. I'm sure he wouldn't have been so mad if I'd have volunteered to join the army. Anything but this. He couldn't believe it. I agree with him: It wasn't a viable career opportunity.
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Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.
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I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.
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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.
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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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A good thing never ends.
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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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It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful welcome. It was a great show and we'll remember it forever.
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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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I can't get no satisfaction.
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Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.
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The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.
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Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.
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Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.
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If you're really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first.