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"I certainly want to get back to the U.S. to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida"

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Mick Taylor’s longing for the U.S. reads less like tourist gush and more like a working musician marking territory. “To play” is the operative phrase: America isn’t framed as an idea but as a circuit, a market, a sprawling set of rooms with decent backlines and audiences who still treat guitar lineage like a living language. The repeated “there” does quiet work, turning the U.S. into a reliable stage rather than a foreign country. It’s pragmatic affection.

The subtext is also about scale and permission. “Such a big country” sounds obvious, but in a touring life it means range: multiple scenes, multiple comebacks, multiple versions of yourself you can test out city by city. Taylor’s three-name roll call - New York, LA, Florida - is a miniature career map: bohemia and credibility, industry and reinvention, then a softer climate of semi-retirement and reintegration. He isn’t listing states; he’s listing moods.

Context matters: Taylor is forever adjacent to the Rolling Stones mythos, the famously combustible “who belongs in the band’s story” debate. In that shadow, the U.S. becomes a place where identity can be earned through performance rather than litigated through nostalgia. The quote’s plainness is its strategy. No grand claims, no messy history, just a seasoned player saying: put me back in front of an American crowd, and the rest will take care of itself.

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Taylor, Mick. (n.d.). I certainly want to get back to the U.S. to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-certainly-want-to-get-back-to-the-us-to-play-93752/

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Taylor, Mick. "I certainly want to get back to the U.S. to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida." FixQuotes. Accessed February 1, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-certainly-want-to-get-back-to-the-us-to-play-93752/.

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"I certainly want to get back to the U.S. to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-certainly-want-to-get-back-to-the-us-to-play-93752/. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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Mick Taylor (born January 17, 1948) is a Musician from England.

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