Mick Jagger Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I do a lot of stuff for free anyway. Like a lot of people who you see who don't need money. Mick Jagger - he needs money? He just likes to go sing Satisfaction every night. If I wrote that song I probably would do it too. ~ Henry Rollins

Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything. ~ Boris Johnson

I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones. ~ Richie Sambora

It depends who they are. If it's Mick (Jagger) or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton (John), David (Bowie) are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe. ~ John Lennon

"I've learned what's funny verbally ain't so funny on e-mail: They don't hear your intonations. Melissa broke up with somebody over that. She tried to tell him: "That was a joke!" But he just didn't get it. Mick Jagger said, "F- 'em if they don't get the joke." And I love him. That comes with age: Knowing it's their problem, not mine." ~ Joan Rivers

us not forget Charlie Watts punching Mick Jagger after Jagger called him "my drummer." "You're my singer," Watts snarled, before adjusting his cuffs, and walking away. ~ Caitlin Moran

It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway! ~ Brian Eno

I went to see 'Shine a Light,' and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch that man do what he does in front of an audience. It's primarily Mick Jagger, but they're all so confident and relaxed and in love with what they do, and aware of the power of what they do. It's just deeply, deeply attractive. ~ Ben Daniels

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

There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair. ~ Neil Tennant

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. ~ Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad. ~ Truman Capote

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression. ~ Mick Jagger

One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live. ~ Mick Jagger

You've got to have fresh wardrobe. You can't just go out there looking like you did last time. That helps your transformation. ~ Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. ~ Olivia Wilde

We have a lot of secondary market problems in the U.K.; it's really bad there. And lots of artists are starting to participate in it, because they put the tickets up at a certain price, then the tickets get marked up by the secondary sellers, and someone else gets twice as much as you. ~ Mick Jagger

I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge. ~ Mavis Staples

I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people. ~ Mick Jagger

All dancing is a replacement for sex ~ Mick Jagger

I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger. ~ Sheryl Crow

Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the time. It's not something that suddenly you do it. It's always there. Suddenly, it's in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you're writing on the piano or a guitar, you don't write in lyrics, on their own. To me it's very boring. ~ Mick Jagger

When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright. ~ Henry Rollins

I love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes ~ Mick Jagger

If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else. ~ Mick Jagger

I found Mick Jagger ... very bright. I always liked him very much and still do. ~ Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Mick Jagger also a music connoisseur and knows everything about that era. So, you knew the music side was going to be top-notch. It's HBO. On Men of Certain Age, if we wanted a song, it would break the bank. But, Vinyl can go all-out. ~ Ray Romano

I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40. ~ Mick Jagger

I'd love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary. ~ Alexa Chung

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka. ~ Mick Jagger

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. ~ Mick Jagger

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on. ~ Mick Jagger

My mother thinks Mick Jagger is a foreign car. ~ Gina Barreca

You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex. ~ Mick Jagger

When he was 19, Mick Jagger said, "what a drag it is getting old... (Mother's little Helper) ~ The Stones

Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous - a battered old roue - I can just see him. An aging rock star doesn't have to opt out life. When I'm 50, I'll prove it ... ~ David Bowie

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

I love Chrissie Hynde and Mick Jagger. Someone at Capitol pointed out how much my inflections are similar to Jagger's. ~ Meredith Brooks

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. ~ Mick Jagger

She imagined herself whirling breathlessly beneath the flashing lights of some impossibly chic Manhattan disco. Suddenly, a hand touches her arm. She turns. 'Pardon me,' Mick Jagger says, 'I believe this next dance is mine. ~ Francine Pascal