Mick Jagger Quotes
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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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One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.
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Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.
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It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.
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I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, "Well, I can do this." And I liked doing it.
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I don't believe in having bands for solo records.
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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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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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I can't get no satisfaction.
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People also like partnerships because they can identify with the drama of two people in partnership. They can feed off a partnership, and that keeps people entertained. Besides, if you have a successful partnership, it's self-sustaining.
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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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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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My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
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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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Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.
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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 would like to reach a balance and forget a few things.
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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 don't hate journalists. You can't hate a class of people. It's wrong to say that. But I do think they're a bit like poison. Never trust them. You can't trust them as a class of people. It's their job not to be trusted.
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A good thing never ends.
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Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.
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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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Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful welcome. It was a great show and we'll remember it forever.