Top 100 Mick Jagger Quotes
#1. It's a real buzz, even in front of 20 people, to make a complete fool of yourself. But people seemed to like it. And the thing is, if people started throwing tomatoes at me, I wouldn't have gone on with it.
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#2. If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.
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#3. The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.
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#4. 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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#5. I don't believe in astrology. It's a lot of crap. I just think that's another thing you should throw out the window. Mysticism. Cheap. It's amazing that people still hang on to that after all these years.
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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. You've got to have fresh wardrobe. You can't just go out there looking like you did last time. That helps your transformation.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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#13. Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.
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#14. I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.
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#15. It's hard to believe that you did so many drugs for so long. That's what I find really hard. And didn't really consider it. It was eating and drinking and taking drugs and having sex. It was just part of life.
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#16. I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.
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#17. Quite often when I record a song, writing it and making a demo is the big thing and, after that, I think, how do I actually translate this into real life? A lot of the time I think I can't be bothered.
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#18. I don't know if rock is dying. I wouldn't want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
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#20. I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.
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#21. Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.
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#22. Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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#25. I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
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#27. The elusive nature of love ... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.
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#28. I don't only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn't want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.
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#29. Of course, I do occasionally arouse primeval instincts, but I mean, most men can do that. They can't do it to so many. I just happen to be able to do it to several thousand people. It's fun to do that.
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#30. He stole my music but he gave me my name.
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#31. 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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#32. People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!
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#33. I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band.
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#34. Don't take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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#36. People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.
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#37. Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.
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#38. 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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#39. There's no great technical expertise in being a movie producer.
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#40. We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.
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#41. If you're really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first.
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#42. I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.
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#43. Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.
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#44. I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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#45. My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
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#46. Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.
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#47. People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.
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#48. You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant
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#49. The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the early '60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress.
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#50. Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.
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#51. Everyone knows what their roots are, but you've got to explore everywhere. You've got to explore the sky too.
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#52. I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.
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#53. I have to get up the fitness level, sing a lot, practice, get in the mood, and generally do lots of rehearsal. Get your body and mind ready.
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#54. I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45.
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#55. Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
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#56. I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don't see it as an immediate problem.
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#57. When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.
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#58. There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.
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#59. 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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#62. It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.
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#63. 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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#64. I always think it's better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That's not saying I've never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been - it didn't take me that long to realize that it wasn't a good thing.
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#65. I'm very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people - sort of like saying, once you get married you are on the highway to heaven, and quite often it isn't that. I think marriage has always been based on a combination of religious and legal reasons.
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#66. Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.
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#67. 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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#68. I wasn't taking so many drugs that it was messing up my creative processes. It was a very good period, 1968 - there was a good feeling in the air. It was a very creative period for everyone.
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#69. You better stop
Look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes your nine-teenth nervous breakdown.
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#70. 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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#71. Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.
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#72. I don't believe in having bands for solo records.
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#73. Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
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#74. I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
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#75. 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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#76. I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.
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#77. I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
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#78. I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
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#79. In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They've got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.
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#80. I don't like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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#81. I would like to reach a balance and forget a few things.
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#82. 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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#83. When Gimme Shelter was recorded, early '69 or something, it was a time of war and tension, so that's reflected in this tune. It's still wheeled out when big storms happen, as they did the other week. It's been used a lot to evoke natural disaster.
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#84. The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
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#85. 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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#86. I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.
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#87. I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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#88. Have I turned into a motorized preacher? We spend so much time in cars that if you don't try to get some experiences out of it, you can go crazy.
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#89. The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.
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#90. People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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#91. In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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#92. I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.
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#93. I'm very much against the secondary ticket market. I don't know anyone who isn't.
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#94. Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.
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#95. We have a lot of secondary market problems in the U.K.; it's really bad there. And lots of artists are starting to participate in it, because they put the tickets up at a certain price, then the tickets get marked up by the secondary sellers, and someone else gets twice as much as you.
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#96. You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.
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#97. 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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#99. It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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#100. Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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