Mick Jagger Quotes
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It's Only Rock and Roll.
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It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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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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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 don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.
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It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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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 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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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 am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.
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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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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.
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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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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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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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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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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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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 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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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 love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes.