Top 100 Quotes About Mick Jagger
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. I'd love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary.
Alexa Chung
#4. That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.
Bruce Forsyth
#5. The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.
Mick Jagger
#6. 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
#7. My father was furious with me, absolutely furious. I'm sure he wouldn't have been so mad if I'd have volunteered to join the army. Anything but this. He couldn't believe it. I agree with him: It wasn't a viable career opportunity.
Mick Jagger
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I'm not the businessman. I don't deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I've run out of money, I have to go and make some more.
Mick Jagger
#14. 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
#15. 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
#17. Movies in this country, its very complicated, and we could bang on about it forever, but the French movie industry is very different because its very obviously French.
Mick Jagger
#18. I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, "Well, I can do this." And I liked doing it.
Mick Jagger
#19. 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
#20. I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.
Dougray Scott
#21. 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.
Mick Jagger
#22. 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
#23. Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.
Mick Jagger
#24. I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
Mick Jagger
#25. 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
#26. I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
Mick Jagger
#27. Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
Mick Jagger
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.
Mick Jagger
#32. Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?
Keith Richards
#33. I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.
Mick Jagger
#34. It's hard to believe that you did so many drugs for so long. That's what I find really hard. And didn't really consider it. It was eating and drinking and taking drugs and having sex. It was just part of life.
Mick Jagger
#35. I don't want to be my extravert self all the time.
Mick Jagger
#36. I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.
Mick Jagger
#37. Quite often when I record a song, writing it and making a demo is the big thing and, after that, I think, how do I actually translate this into real life? A lot of the time I think I can't be bothered.
Mick Jagger
#38. I don't know if rock is dying. I wouldn't want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
Mick Jagger
#39. 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
#40. Everyone in the movie industry wants to win an Oscar. I don't think that's why you make movies. But winning an Oscar is not just about making a great movie, unfortunately. It's also having a good Oscar campaign.
Mick Jagger
#41. Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.
Mick Jagger
#42. There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.
Mick Jagger
#43. The guy thought he was Mick Jagger. I felt bad for him.
Kami Garcia
#44. My mother thinks Mick Jagger is a foreign car.
Gina Barreca
#45. You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to behave.
Mick Jagger
#46. I don't want to be a rock star all my life.
I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags
Mick Jagger
#47. 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
#48. 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
#50. People have different personalities when they're drunk or take heroin, or whatever drugs.
Mick Jagger
#51. I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.
Mick Jagger
#52. Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.
Mick Jagger
#53. Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
Mick Jagger
#55. Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
Mick Jagger
#56. As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.
Mick Jagger
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#63. I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, 'You should never sing the lyrics out very clearly.
Mick Jagger
#64. I didn't want to make teenage comedies, and I didn't want to make really trashy films. I wanted to make films that were a bit challenging.
Mick Jagger
#65. I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
Mick Jagger
#66. And, you know, I still haven't been contacted by Mick Jagger, either!
Liz Phair
#67. 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
#69. The elusive nature of love ... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.
Mick Jagger
#70. Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.
Isaac Mizrahi
#71. I love Chrissie Hynde and Mick Jagger. Someone at Capitol pointed out how much my inflections are similar to Jagger's.
Meredith Brooks
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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.
Mick Jagger
#75. 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
#76. I don't only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn't want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.
Mick Jagger
#77. 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.
Mick Jagger
#78. I don't watch much ESPN. Unless they have soccer on.
Mick Jagger
#79. He stole my music but he gave me my name.
Mick Jagger
#80. 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
#81. People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!
Mick Jagger
#82. I was having a bit of trouble. I wasn't in a good relationship. Or I was in too many bad relationships. I had so many girlfriends at that point. None of them seemed to care they weren't pleasing me very much. I was obviously in with the wrong group.
Mick Jagger
#83. I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.
Richie Sambora
#84. I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band.
Mick Jagger
#85. Don't take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
Mick Jagger
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. I don't really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn't really worry me even if it's like out of place. At least it's relevant.
Mick Jagger
#89. I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.
Mick Jagger
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.
Mick Jagger
#94. The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.
Mick Jagger
#95. I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there's nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don't produce as good things as you could.
Mick Jagger
#96. There's no great technical expertise in being a movie producer.
Mick Jagger
#97. We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.
Mick Jagger
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.
Rod Stewart
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