Quotes About Mick Jagger

#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

#13. The guy thought he was Mick Jagger. I felt bad for him.

Kami Garcia

#14. My mother thinks Mick Jagger is a foreign car.

Gina Barreca

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. And, you know, I still haven't been contacted by Mick Jagger, either!

Liz Phair

#23. Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.

Isaac Mizrahi

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

Meredith Brooks

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.

Richie Sambora

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

Rod Stewart

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

Axl Rose

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.

Boris Johnson

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages.

Pete Hamill

#42. 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

#43. Mick Jagger's lips' so big, black people be going, "You got some big-ass lips!"

Eddie Murphy

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

Sammy Hagar

#47. Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

Don Henley

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. Mick Jagger could French-kiss a moose. He has child-bearing lips.

Joan Rivers

#51. Mick Jagger, the greatest of all front men I've ever met in my life.

Ozzy Osbourne

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.

Truman Capote

#55. Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling.

Robin S

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.

Truman Capote

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

The Stones

#63. 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

#64. We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him.

Martin Scorsese

#65. Never would I have thought that I would meet Mick Jagger, much less be working on the same project.

Ato Essandoh

#66. 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

#67. I found Mick Jagger ... very bright. I always liked him very much and still do.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry

Bob Geldof

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.

Mick Jagger

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. I can't get no satisfaction.

Mick Jagger

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.

Mick Jagger

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.

Mick Jagger

#89. Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

Mick Jagger

#90. 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

#91. Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.

Mick Jagger

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. I don't want to be my extravert self all the time.

Mick Jagger

#95. I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

Mick Jagger

#96. 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

#97. 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

#98. 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

#99. Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.

Mick Jagger

#100. There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

Mick Jagger