Mick Jagger Quotes
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You don't have to bathe every day to look clean. It's just an illusion.
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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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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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Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the time. It's not something that suddenly you do it. It's always there. Suddenly, it's in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you're writing on the piano or a guitar, you don't write in lyrics, on their own. To me it's very boring.
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I can't get no satisfaction.
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Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.
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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'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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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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A good thing never ends.
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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 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 don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.
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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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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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It's Only Rock and Roll.
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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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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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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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It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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I think it's very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don't talk about. That's why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.
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It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.