Top 100 Jagger Quotes
#1. I'd love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary.
Alexa Chung
#2. That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.
Bruce Forsyth
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. As Mick Jagger will tell you, performing is an aerobic work-out. I've got the bass guitar, which is the heaviest of all the instruments, and I'm a little girl, in boiling-hot leather under the lights. You have to keep the fitness level up if you want to look good up there.
Suzi Quatro
#6. 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
#7. I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.
Dougray Scott
#8. 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
#9. The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.
Paul McCartney
#10. Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?
I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.
Cher
#11. Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?
Keith Richards
#12. Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.
Christian Audigier
#14. David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.
Hedi Slimane
#15. The guy thought he was Mick Jagger. I felt bad for him.
Kami Garcia
#16. My mother thinks Mick Jagger is a foreign car.
Gina Barreca
#17. Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I don't. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they believed me.
Adam Levine
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.
Bette Midler
#21. I didn't appreciate Mick Jagger until I got older, and mainly because of the Mick Jagger swagger. He defined that for the world. He was bold and adventurous with it, too - just the ultimate rock star.
Mayer Hawthorne
#22. Well, I was named after Mick Jagger's daughter, Jade Jagger. How emasculating is it to be named after a girl! But I think I handled it well, it's not like I ended up wearing makeup and girl's pants.
Jade Puget
#23. Arianne moved trembling hands over his shoulders, tangling them in his soft, thick hair. "Is this how you dance?" Jagger jerked her closer, thrusting his knee between her legs, forcing her dress to ride dangerously high. "Sweetheart, this is how I fuck.
Sarah Castille
#24. The next innovation, Sensavision, will be like a Walkman attached to your forehead. You won't actually have your head wired because infrared wires will send signals to you. In 2007 Mick Jagger will be on stage, and when Mick feels heat, you'll feel heat.
Tony Verna
#25. I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.
Tommy Hilfiger
#26. I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want.
Andy Garcia
#27. And, you know, I still haven't been contacted by Mick Jagger, either!
Liz Phair
#28. Were the Rolling Stones good looking? Well, Jagger was, but the rest of the dudes? Maybe not so much.
Ashton Irwin
#29. Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.
Isaac Mizrahi
#30. I love Chrissie Hynde and Mick Jagger. Someone at Capitol pointed out how much my inflections are similar to Jagger's.
Meredith Brooks
#31. 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
#32. I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.
David Bowie
#33. To me, my peers are Bruce Springsteen and Mick Jagger. I'm not talking age-wise, but in terms of careers. Madonna. Those are my peers. And I'm okay with that.
LL Cool J
#34. I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.
Michael Hutchence
#35. I wanted to be in Rolling Stone number two with a tomorrow feel to it, like an experimental Rolling Stones with Jagger singing.
Jeff Beck
#36. I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.
Richie Sambora
#37. If somebody says to you, 'MTV,' you think of Mick Jagger on a phone screaming at that phone: 'I want my MTV.' That, to me, was always the epitome of great advertising.
George Lois
#38. I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.
Bobby Vinton
#39. 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
#40. Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.
Rod Stewart
#41. Mick Jagger is one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, just for how much he puts into it onstage.
Axl Rose
#43. I got those Moves Like Jagger!
Maroon 5
#44. My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.
Marianne Faithfull
#45. I'd be willing to bet no kid, no matter how disturbed, was inspired to go out and shoot up a classroom by boogeying around his living room to "Moves Like Jagger." There
Stephen King
#46. I could care less if it's Mick Jagger or the man on the street. I just like interesting people, and I happen to know a lot of stars.
Nicholas Haslam
#47. 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
#48. Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
Boris Johnson
#49. Please, I need to come." "Jesus," Jagger muttered as he shifted desperately against the seat but the move provided absolutely no relief. "Should I let him come, Jagger?" "No," Jagger said softly. "Keep him there," he ordered. "Jagger!
Sloane Kennedy
#50. For whose benefit? Hers or yours? Do you care at all how she feels? Or do you just want to hear her say how much she loves you. Get out, Jagger, you don't deserve her.
Bec Botefuhr
#51. 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
#52. They looked at me like I was some kind of threat. [Mick] Jagger really tried to put me down, but there was no way some crude, lippy guy was going to do a number on me. I was always able to squelch him. I found out that, if you stand up to Mick, he crumbles.
Anita Pallenberg
#53. Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.
Bill Walton
#54. Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages.
Pete Hamill
#55. 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
#56. Mick Jagger's lips' so big, black people be going, "You got some big-ass lips!"
Eddie Murphy
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
Halsey
#60. I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
Sammy Hagar
#61. Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.
Don Henley
#63. I once asked him why he smoked the world's most expensive cigarette, and he told me it was because he was a man of wealth and taste, at least according to Mick Jagger.
K.H. Koehler
#64. The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children.
Charlie Sheen
#65. The best picture I got was Bianca Jagger whispering in Mick's ear. I caught them telling a secret, which is sort of rude.
Robert Mapplethorpe
#66. 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
#67. Mick Jagger could French-kiss a moose. He has child-bearing lips.
Joan Rivers
#68. Mick Jagger, the greatest of all front men I've ever met in my life.
Ozzy Osbourne
#69. My ultimate style pin up is a tough question because my own style is influenced by so many sources. From Bianca Jagger to Kate Moss to Julie Christie. I love how they are always themselves and it never looks too 'done.'
Behati Prinsloo
#70. I'm still younger than Jagger ... Most people are.
David Bowie
#71. And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
#72. I look up to Mick Jagger because he's an amazing performer and he's such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.
Victoria Justice
#73. Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.
Truman Capote
#74. Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling.
Robin S
#75. 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
#76. One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded.
Tommy Chong
#77. Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.
Jerry Hall
#78. I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.
Ted Naifeh
#79. I love to wear my own Jade Jagger ball gowns. I love their timeless elegance, of course with my own jewelry.
Jade Jagger
#80. I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is the utterly normal voice, but sheer repetition has made them think it's OK. Mick Jagger once was asked, 'What makes a hit song? He said, 'Repetition.'
Ira Glass
#81. Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
Truman Capote
#82. When he was 19, Mick Jagger said, "what a drag it is getting old... (Mother's little Helper)
The Stones
#83. I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn't make my career out of old songs; it would do my head in.
Paul Weller
#84. The best thing about Mick Jagger is how uncalculating he is. He does what he wants to do and it feels right. He's not a dancer - neither am I.
Adam Levine
#85. We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him.
Martin Scorsese
#86. Never would I have thought that I would meet Mick Jagger, much less be working on the same project.
Ato Essandoh
#87. 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
#88. I found Mick Jagger ... very bright. I always liked him very much and still do.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
#89. You have all this stuff going on in your head, like, 'I can't believe seven years has gone by, and I'm going to miss all these people.' And I'm like, 'Oh, by the way, Mick Jagger is to my right, and I just danced a waltz with him.' So there's that.
Kristen Wiig
#90. Jagger knew who I was, and I could actually tell him things that I could not say to Kai - or anyone else, really.
Danielle Paige
#91. People ask what those women saw in me. Let's face it, I wasn't a bad-looking stud. But that's not it. It's the music; it's standing up there under the lights. A lot of women just flip; looks have nothing to do with it. You call Mick Jagger good-looking?
Artie Shaw
#92. They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry
Bob Geldof
#93. I used to call my grandmother 'Nana,' so that seems right to me, but maybe I'll just be 'Jade', in that modern way.
Jade Jagger
#94. My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?'
Jade Jagger
#95. Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?
Bianca Jagger
#96. Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.
Bianca Jagger
#97. Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.
Bianca Jagger
#98. It's a real buzz, even in front of 20 people, to make a complete fool of yourself. But people seemed to like it. And the thing is, if people started throwing tomatoes at me, I wouldn't have gone on with it.
Mick Jagger
#99. If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.
Mick Jagger
#100. The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.
Mick Jagger
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