Jagger Quotes

I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution. ~ Bianca Jagger

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. ~ Mick Jagger

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions. ~ Bianca Jagger

When we heard we were topping the bill over James Brown we couldn't believe it. We tried for two days to get it changed round - I mean you can't follow an act like that. ~ Mick Jagger

My collection has a whole new cut; they are based on the style of jeans my mum wore in Texas in the '70s. ~ Georgia May Jagger

I think people get excited about summer wardrobes and what they will wear on holiday, and people have an opportunity to wear things that they don't normally wear when they're in the city. ~ Jade Jagger

Don't take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad. ~ Mick Jagger

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. ~ Mick Jagger

It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much. ~ Mick Jagger

I feel great identification with the developing world. ~ Bianca Jagger

Taking drugs on a recreation level is one thing. But taking them while you're working on a stage is, I don't think it was that great. It's the control factor. And the thing about being on stage, you really want to feel that you're sort of in control a lot. It's not a place where you want to be out of control. ~ Mick Jagger

My dad's not a very intimidating father figure. ~ Georgia Jagger

The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless. ~ Bianca Jagger

When you are born into a family like mine, you don't really know anything else. But you quickly realise that it's more about other people and how they are dealing with it. Some can be hugely in awe or uncomfortable, but to you, your parents are just your parents. ~ Jade Jagger

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

I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting. ~ Mick Jagger

I've got the moves like Jagger. ~ Adam Levine

I think all the stuff that happens before the pictures are taken is much more exciting. ~ Georgia Jagger

Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire. ~ Truman Capote

I am not frightened of speaking my mind. I don't have fear in that regard. ~ Jade Jagger

They're so boring. They're so pathetic, all those journalists. Most of them are. Most of those kind that write gossip stuff, and most of it's gossip. Things are just invented about your personal life and you just have to take that. It's bullshit. People believe it, though. They just believe everything they read. ~ Mick Jagger

Basically, my hair is very dry from all the backcombing! Hairdressers prefer if your hair is dry and damaged, as it makes it easier to style. ~ Georgia May Jagger

I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport. ~ Mick Jagger

You better stop
Look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes your nine-teenth nervous breakdown. ~ Mick Jagger

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

I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band. ~ Mick Jagger

Well, technically we make money off of the guys trying to get laid by the sexy drunk girls." He ~ Eve Jagger

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

I am not about fringing, cow girl boots, that kind of Coachella vibe. I just wear something comfortable. ~ Georgia May Jagger

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

Mick's album was called She's the Boss, which said it all. I've never listened to the entire thing all the way through. Who has? It's like Mein Kampf. Everybody had a copy, but nobody listened to it. ~ Keith Richards

Anyone taking heroin is thinking about taking heroin more than they're thinking about anything else. That's the general rule about most drugs. ~ Mick Jagger

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

I think it's important to be yourself and not try and emulate someone else's look. ~ Jade Jagger

They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual artist or even as part of the Beatles has absolutely misunderstood everything I ever said if they can't see why I'm with Yoko. And if they can't see that, they don't see anything. They're just jacking off to - it could be anybody. Mick Jagger or somebody else. Let them go jack off to Mick Jagger, okay? I don't need it. ~ John Lennon

Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness. ~ Mick Jagger

If you think that starving yourself all day is going to make you happy, you're a fool, because not only are you physically drained, you're mentally drained, with nothing left to give to your work or your lover or whoever it is you so want to be beautiful for. ~ Jade Jagger

Mick Jagger is one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, just for how much he puts into it onstage. ~ Axl Rose

Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war. ~ Bianca Jagger

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant ~ Mick Jagger

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age. ~ Mick Jagger

Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media. ~ Bianca Jagger

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South. ~ Mick Jagger

Just then Jagger walks in, his hair all ruffled and his body hard and firm. We all stop talking and stare as he runs his hands through his hair in an attempt to straighten it up.
"Take a picture ladies, it lasts longer." he mutters ~ Bec Botefuhr

I've made a contribution to my time and my generation through being myself, not through what I shared with the Rolling Stones. It's very bad for me and very dangerous to see myself as someone who had an influence on this song or that song. It immediately puts me in the position where my worth is dependent on how much of my soul I shared with Mick Jagger, and it's just not valid. You can use the gossip you've heard. You're not getting it from me. ~ Marianne Faithfull

Having money will make you look enticing to women even if you are not a good-looking dude. Don't believe me, go ask Mick Jagger, Donald Trump, Jay-Z and the rest of the fugly men who have all the money and get all the fine women. ~ Rebecca Scott

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget. ~ Bianca Jagger

I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture. ~ Mick Jagger

My parents never really lecture me. ~ Georgia Jagger

Dandelions don't tell no lies ... ~ Mick Jagger

I'll take whatever I want, tiger. ~ Eve Jagger

People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking! ~ Mick Jagger

Fake tan is really difficult to get right. When I was younger, I'd always do it wrong. I'd leave it on and forget to wash it off. So I embrace being pale. I like getting a tan, but I also think that if you're going to do it, it has to be gradual. I just work the pale thing now. ~ Georgia Jagger

I have friends of mine who have died of AIDS and many of those friends ... did not tell me until the very end ... because they felt that there was a stigma, a taboo, attached to it ... now we have more women infected with HIV/AIDS, many of those women were infected by their husbands who did not tell them ~ Bianca Jagger

The Rolling Stones were an inkling towards an appreciation of the unity of music, dance and words. Any of the black R&B people who had a stage show that involved dancing, music and words did the same thing, except that I thought Jagger's words were good, his music was good and his dancing was good. I spoke to him about Blake and tried to get him to sing [William] Blake's The Grey Monk, to use his words as lyrics. He didn't do it. In the end, I did it myself. ~ Allen Ginsberg

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world. ~ Bianca Jagger

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer. ~ Mick Jagger

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that? ~ Mick Jagger

I've wanted to be Mick Jagger since I was 18. One of the things I love about music is that you don't have to be dependent on other people like you are in the film business. I hate being dependent on anyone. With my music, I can do whatever I want. I also think it's made me more relaxed as an actress. ~ Emmanuelle Seigner

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. ~ Mick Jagger

Just Cavalli for Her is a flowery and sexy fragrance. I like its freshness and feminine scent. ~ Georgia May Jagger

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

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts. ~ Mick Jagger

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral. ~ Bianca Jagger

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. ~ Mick Jagger

Modeling is always something I've really admired because I've seen my mum and sister do it. ~ Georgia Jagger

You still don't get it," Dawn ran a hand through her soft, blond curles. "Yes, Jagger would do anything to protect you. But he'll also stand with you. That night Axle crashed my birthday party and you pulled your gun on him, Jagger was beside you. He could have taken over, but he didn't. And that was a hell of a message. You had his support and he would kill anyone who hurt you, but it was your damn show. ~ Sarah Castille

Sometimes people ask what it was like when I got to meet Mick Jagger, and I must admit that you just try and chill out and be your best self around anyone that you meet. ~ Meshell Ndegeocello

Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage. ~ Mick Jagger

Why would you care what happened to me? That's all in the past." Jagger bent down and touched his forehead to hers. "Because you're mine. And 'mine' means you have my protection. 'Mine' means I'll look after you. It means nothing happens you don't want to happen and no one touches you without your consent. It means your life is in my hands and I will do everything in my power to ensure you are safe and secure and your needs are met. It means something happened to you that twisted your perception so bad, you look at us and you see only them. I'll make that right. I'll give you justice. I'll give you back whatever was taken from you. ~ Anonymous

I've managed to avoid tattoos so far. ~ Mick Jagger

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts. ~ Bianca Jagger

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be involved with what you have done. ~ Mick Jagger

You can't always get what you want. ~ Mick Jagger

Never would I have thought that I would meet Mick Jagger, much less be working on the same project. ~ Ato Essandoh

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years. ~ Bianca Jagger

When you start a new project, no matter if it's a movie like Enigma or an album like Goddess, you are always learning something. While I search, I find something new. ~ Mick Jagger

Bullies before beauties, ~ Eve Jagger

We don't want to be Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones. That type of thing wasn't what we were after. It was most important for each of us to be equal in input and output - each of us has to pull the same amount, musically, in composition and in every sense of being in the band. ~ Neil Peart

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 modern. ~ Mick Jagger

When I was younger, I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance, and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas. ~ Georgia May Jagger

George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes. ~ Bianca Jagger

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. ~ Mick Jagger

Before John could even get through the first verse, who bursts through the door and jumps right into the fray, lips a'kissin' and hips a'wigglin'? That's right, kids, everbody's favorite zombie hunter. Mick Jagger strode right up to John, raised his arms to the sky, and said, 'O zombie Lennon! It ends here. ~ Alan Goldsher

Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition. ~ Jade Jagger

I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home. ~ Mick Jagger

I don't believe in having bands for solo records. ~ Mick Jagger

He stole my music but he gave me my name. ~ Mick Jagger

Among the many ecstatic notices, Robert Christgau, the self-appointed 'dean of American rock critics', put it best, in a review that would still be being quoted when he left the Village Voice twenty-six years later: 'Mick Jagger should fold up his penis and go home. ~ Matt Thorne

I would love to do my own line of clothes - something small. ~ Georgia May Jagger

I have a coconut oil stick, which I use for everything - on my eye lids to make them shinier, on my lips, and on any dry skin. ~ Georgia May Jagger

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. ~ Mick Jagger

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. ~ Mick Jagger

Country music ... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak. ~ Mick Jagger

The Beatles were hard men too. Brian Epstein cleaned them up for mass consumption, but they were anything but sissies. They were from Liverpool, which is like Hamburg or Norfolk, Virginia
a hard, sea-farin' town, all these dockers and sailors around all the time who would beat the piss out of you if you so much as winked at them. Ringo's from the Dingle, which is like the f***ing Bronx. The Rolling Stones were the mummy's boys
they were all college students from the outskirts of London. They went to starve in London, but it was by choice, to give themselves some sort of aura of disrespectability. I did like the Stones, but they were never anywhere near the Beatles
not for humour, not for originality, not for songs, not for presentation. All they had was Mick Jagger dancing about. Fair enough, the Stones made great records, but they were always s**t on stage, whereas the Beatles were the gear. ~ Lemmy Kilmister

I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over. ~ Mick Jagger

Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them. ~ Mick Jagger

They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry ~ Bob Geldof

Depending on how you looked at it, Darren was our Mick Jagger (designated swaggering extrovert) to Simon's Keith Richards (quietly virtuosic, blatantly self-destructive). Or else Darren had been Paul McCartney (chirpily commercial) and Simon had been John Lennon (moody, introspective, possessed of quasi-mystical insights). ~ Austin Grossman

My mum taught me a lot about fashion in terms of knowing what looks good on you and developing my own sense of style. Even when we were shooting the Sunglass Hut campaign, we went through racks of clothing together, and ultimately I decided on a short, more fitted peplum dress, while Mum opted for a sexy blazer and black leggings. ~ Georgia May Jagger