Mick Jagger Quotes
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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.
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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 have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.
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Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can't be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that's always good.
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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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I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.
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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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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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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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I can't get no satisfaction.
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I don't believe in having bands for solo records.
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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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Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.
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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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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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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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Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.
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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.
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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 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.