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Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.

Mick Jagger

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Mick Jagger
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 26
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Michael Philip Jagger
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I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.
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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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Dandelions don't tell no lies.
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Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
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I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
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You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with having sex, you know. At any age.
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I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.
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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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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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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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Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.
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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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We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.
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Anyone taking heroin is thinking about taking heroin more than they're thinking about anything else. That's the general rule about most drugs.
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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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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.
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Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.
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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
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