Mick Jagger Quotes
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I can't get no satisfaction.
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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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The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.
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I'm interested in feedback and learning what people want. It's a tricky thing for me when I do a set list. You get bored doing the same songs. Let's say we do one ballad in two hours, and it's "Wild Horses." If you say, I'm tired of that, let's try something less well known, and then you're out there stumbling through this song you just relearned at sound check, and you realize people probably want "Wild Horses" instead of this. You do need to do some songs that aren't so well known. The question is how many? I'm open to people posting their requests.
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A good thing never ends.
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.
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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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It's Only Rock and Roll.
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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'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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That's one of the good things about a lot of the young British bands, they are mixing all styles of music. I think that's very good because that's very now.
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Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.
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Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.
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Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of marijuana and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been - it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.
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It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.
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The music's rehearsed a lot. All people think about is, they think, in rock 'n' roll, they get the music off right and they think it's okay standing, looking macho. Well, it's not. That's boring. If you want to be a performer you've got to do a lot more work than that.
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I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.
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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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I would like to reach a balance and forget a few things.
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The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
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I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.
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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.