Latest Mick Jagger Quotes from Interviews

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• I suppose you do think about the time that's allotted to you more than when you were younger. The mortality thing obviously has a stronger pull for you. It's an imminent truth; it's not necessarily a bad thing. You realize - much earlier than my age now - that you won't be able to play for England's football team, just to take a really crass example. So you can't have that life again. Unless you believe in reincarnation or whatever. Reincarnation? That's a whole other question. I find people who talk about that sort of thing in interviews idiotic. And I don't want to go down with them.

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  Football, Team, Believe

• You don't have to bathe every day to look clean. It's just an illusion.

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  Illusion

  "New Again: The Rolling Stones". Interview with Andy Warhol, Amanda Duberman and Catherine Guinness, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 29, 1977.

• I don't think there's anything wrong with having sex, you know. At any age.

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  Thinking, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't believe in original melodies. There are only so many computations of eight notes.

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  Believe, Melody

  "New Again: The Rolling Stones". Interview with Andy Warhol, Amanda Duberman and Catherine Guinness, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 29, 1977.

• No matter what Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious do, they can't be more disgusting than The Rolling Stones are in an orgy of biting.

  Mick Jagger

  Rolling Stones, Disgusting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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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  Practice, Mind, Levels

  "Mick Jagger On The Apocalyptic 'Gimme Shelter'". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, Melissa Block, www.npr.org. November 16, 2012.

• 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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  War, Storm, Tunes

  Source: www.wbur.org

• You know, being in a rock band, you can't overdo the costume changes too much because everyone thinks, oh, that's not a real rock band. Look how many times he changes costumes. That's not rock. Rock's about going on in a T-shirt and staying in it and getting it all dirty. But that's not really my approach.

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  Real, Dirty, Thinking

  "Mick Jagger On The Apocalyptic 'Gimme Shelter'". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish and Melissa Block, www.npr.org. November 16, 2012.

• 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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  Lasts, Helping, Transformation

  "Mick Jagger On The Apocalyptic 'Gimme Shelter'". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. November 16, 2012.

• 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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  Religious, Thinking, People

  "Pop Music: 10 Questions: Mick Jagger". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. March 31, 1991.

• 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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  Rocks, Interesting, Want

  "Pop Music: 10 Questions: Mick Jagger". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. March 31, 1991.

• 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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  Thinking, Style, Mixing

  "Pop Music: 10 Questions: Mick Jagger". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. March 31, 1991.

• 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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  Rocks, Dying, Doe

  "Pop Music: 10 Questions: Mick Jagger". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. March 31, 1991.

• There is something I like about talking to journalists that really goes beyond promotion because you aren't just talking to the journalist, but you are talking through them to people who presumably are fans of the Rolling Stones. The interviews give you a chance to say a few things and maybe clear up some of the things people read about the band.

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  Talking, Giving, People

  "Pop Music : 10 Questions : Mick Jagger". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. March 31, 1991.

• I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don't see it as an immediate problem.

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  Energy, Problem

  "Mick Jagger Remembers". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. December 14, 1995.

• Rock has to absorb other rhythmic forms, because the underlying rhythm of music changes with fashion, and people like to move differently, and the underlying rhythms have to be the ones that people want to dance to.

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  Fashion, Moving, Rocks

• I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

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  Ties, Singers, Too Much

  "The Rolling Stone Interview: Jagger Remembers". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.jannswenner.com. December 14, 1995.

• It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

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  People, Return, Band

• 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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  People, Alive, Realizing

  "The Rolling Stone Interview: Jagger Remembers". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.jannswenner.com. December 14, 1995.

• 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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  Real, People, Journalist

  "Mick Jagger Remembers". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. December 14, 1995.

• I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.

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  Air, Giving, Feelings

  "Mick Jagger Remembers". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. December 14, 1995.

• Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.

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  Hangover, Drug Use, Terrible

• 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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  Stars, Thinking, Important

  "The Rolling Stone Interview: Jagger Remembers". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.jannswenner.com. December 14, 1995.

• I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.

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  Thinking, People, Half

• I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.

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  Thinking, People, Care