Mick Jagger Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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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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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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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 love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
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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 would like to reach a balance and forget a few things.
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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 don't want to be my extravert self all the time.
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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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I don't believe in having bands for solo records.
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Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.
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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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Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.
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Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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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 believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.