Mick Jagger Quotes
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I don't find it easy dealing with people with drug problems. It helps if you're all taking drugs, all the same drugs.
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Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful welcome. It was a great show and we'll remember it forever.
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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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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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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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You can't always get what you want.
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People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.
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I would like to reach a balance and forget a few things.
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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.
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You have to realize that everyone in a band is all more or less together, and everyone has their own niche, and some people lead in some ways, and some people lead in others.
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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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Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.
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I love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes.
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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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Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.
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Movies in this country, its very complicated, and we could bang on about it forever, but the French movie industry is very different because its very obviously French.
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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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I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.
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For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.
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I don't think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It's not necessarily some state of grace.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with having sex, you know. At any age.