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Mick Jagger
English
Musician
About the author
People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#People
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.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Want
#Past
#Regret
You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Time
#Old
The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Life
#Reading
The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Talk
#Life
#Fashion
#Drugs
Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Attention
#Giving
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.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Love
#Nature
I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Work
I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Habits
#Tea
I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Will
#Day
I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Time
I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Songs
#Forget
#Past
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.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Business
#Artist
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.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Music
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Worth
Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Hope
#Anarchy
A good thing never ends.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#School
#Business
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.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Time
#Love
#People
#First
#Talking
#Women
#Memories
I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Singing
It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Right
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Dreams
#Mind
My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Secrets
Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#War
#Patriotism
People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#People
#Care
#Thoughtful
A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Songs
#Day
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.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Want
#People
#Youth
#Obsession
I can't get no satisfaction.
Mick Jagger,
English
Musician
#Satisfaction