The Mick Quotes

#1. 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

#2. There's nothing nicer than coming back to your village, where people like my mum's friends take the mick out of me. I prefer that to the craziness of Hollywood.

Jeremy Irvine

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

Robin S

#4. On the 8th day, God created Mankind. Why was he having such a bad day? Why did he create all of you normal ... but forget so many important parts of me?

Mick Foley

#5. From its outside wall half a luggage trolley protruded: platform 93/4 was where the Hogwarts Express docked. River

Mick Herron

#6. American Action Network should be spending their money to try and get those Democrats to change the votes, not beating up on Republicans in the House.

Mick Mulvaney

#7. 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

#8. I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern music scene.

Mick Rock

#9. 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

#10. It's sometimes impossible to fit in all the music we want to fit in, in an hour and 45 minute show.

Mick Taylor

#11. I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey.

Mick McCarthy

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

Mick Jagger

#13. I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning.

Mick Taylor

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment.

Mick Cornett

#20. Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.

Mick Rock

#21. I'll never understand the art world. But I kind of feel like there's been some art world/black metal crossovers happening for a while.

Mick Barr

#22. 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

#23. Well, the good news is that there's quite a lot of cynicism about major labels within radio and the press. I think they have been largely disillusioned by the manner in which the record companies have developed music.

Mick Hucknall

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. One of my big inspirations was Chuck Berry, and his playing was always about the rhythm and the lyrics. So I've always been that way in my playing, really.

Mick Ralphs

#27. 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

#28. Shelley says I have no feelings. I say, the trouble with being a man is that if you are a man you have to get on with it and save the feelings for when you're ready to deal with it. So far in my life I've never been ready. I

Mick Flynn

#29. The Stones are not the world's greatest band. Not even the world's second greatest band. What they are is the world's most overrated band. And it wasn't Keith or Mick who wrote "Wild Horses". It was Gram Parsons.

Jo Nesbo

#30. If he licked her there, she'd rob a bank for him.
When she felt his tongue glide across her throat, she quivered all over. Mick tightensed his hold on her, and the bastard did it again.

Jaci Burton

#31. I've never had a plan - it was just to try and get with the people you like to play with, and try to do the best you can.

Mick Ralphs

#32. Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

Ron Wood

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. It's not that blue-collar philosophy is misunderstood, it's that blue-collar philosophy shouldn't exist in the first place. The ultimate question is not the justification of ones existence when your belly screams for sustenance? People are hungry god damn it!

Mick Lexington

#36. 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

#37. An I'll never forget the smile on my face
cos I knew where you would be
An if you're in the Crown tonight
Have a drink on me
But go easy...step lightly...stay free
-- "Stay Free

Mick Jones

#38. I do to keep things sounding fresh. Sometimes just changing the running order of the show is a good idea.

Mick Taylor

#39. Most rappers these days is actors,
And I can't keep watching the same movie.

Mick Jenkins

#40. Regent's Park was looking to the Met for an injection of integrity, it was in serious danger of an irony meltdown.

Mick Herron

#41. The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues.

Mick Taylor

#42. People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!

Ron Wood

#43. 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

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

Mick Jagger

#45. Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female.

Mick Taylor

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

Mick Jagger

#47. I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.

Mick Taylor

#48. It's not rubbish to say that I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn't the whole reason. I guess I just felt like I had enough. I decided to leave and start a group with Jack Bruce.

Mick Taylor

#49. 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

#50. The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.

Mick Taylor

#51. Don't try to sneak in through the window. Just come boldly onto stage, like come right through the door with your choice. Kill the judge in your head and just take action.

Mick Napier

#52. America is the world's policeman, all right
a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a domestic disturbance.

P. J. O'Rourke

#53. The groups I liked, you really looked forward to their albums and you rushed to get them the first day, because you knew it was going to be different than what they did before. The records told you what that group was into at that time.

Mick Jones

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.

Mick Ralphs

#57. 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

#58. Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.

Ron Wood

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

Mick Jagger

#60. You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't.

Charlie Watts

#61. Mick hadn't become the NFL'S leading quarterback by lying back and playing dead.

Jaci Burton

#62. Cut the crap, no-bullshit rock'n'roll, no arguments allowed, mate.

Mick Wall

#63. I'd photographed musicians before but this was different. Syd was very charismatic, and he had the aura of a poete maudit, which made him the perfect subject for me - I realised that rock n' rollers were the modern equivalent of all the poets I was so enamoured with.

Mick Rock

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

Kami Garcia

#65. 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

#66. I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

Mick Taylor

#67. 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

#68. There's a sound with Motley Crue, and it comes with Vince's voice, which is such an important part of the show, and Mick's guitar. And the way Tommy and me play together is an important part of it.

Nikki Sixx

#69. Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f - you're doing

Mick Napier

#70. Molly stood up. You made an error! She felt like saying. A bad throw. So what? It's a baseball game. A game. Who really cares? A bad throw? In the great scheme of things? A bad throw? Of course she didn't say that. She understood that your own errors always feel tragic.

Mick Cochrane

#71. Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.

Mick Jagger

#72. The silence was suddenly too much. He hit the CD button on the car's radio. Brian Jones's sitar riff opened for Charlie Watts tribal-like drumbeat thundering from the speakers. Keith Richards' jangly guitar joined in, followed by Mick singing about seeing a red door that he wanted to paint black.

Glenn Rolfe

#73. Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.

Mick Jagger

#74. I was always totally convinced that three weeks after the revolution they'd put me up against the wall and shoot me.

Mick Farren

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.

Mick Fleetwood

#78. The only features I've done have been on the lower-budget end, for what they were. It's really all about getting the best people aboard and committing to doing the best work possible and prioritizing where your time is going to be spent.

Mick Garris

#79. It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

Mick Taylor

#80. 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

#81. A driver had been sent to meet us. He was gray-haired, short, and nimble and introduced himself. I am Patrick and so is every fourth man in Ireland, and the ones in between are named Sean or Mick or Finn, and I'll be driving you.

Sharon Creech

#82. When she told me how Phil had built a platform that hung five feet from the floor by thick chains to hold the drummer's kit, I nearly died. He'd built it because he believed that drums should be recorded from

Mick Fleetwood

#83. Can you say the following? Jesus is my Prophet. I've taken His yoke of Truth upon me. Jesus is my Priest. I rely on His sacrifice for sin to give me forgiveness of sins... Jesus is my King. I trust Him to deliver me from evil I submit to His authority over me.

Kenneth Mick

#84. 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

#85. For me, it's important that a movie is the congregate of all art forms, from writing to art composition to music to performing. Trying to keep a balance of all those is what I think a director's job is.

Mick Garris

#86. The spoiled superstar brat wouldn't get far in Oklahoma City. We're very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life.

Mick Cornett

#87. Twitter, far from fostering debate and broadening minds, has turned us into a hive of scolds. Angry mobs wait on the sidelines to strike and then bask in the glow of their moral superiority.

Mick Hume

#88. I didn't think of myself as a lead player, especially when we did live shows, because me and Keith used to switch around all the time. He'd take a lead, I'd play rhythm. Sometimes even within one song. It wasn't strict and regimented.

Mick Taylor

#89. The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.

Mick Taylor

#90. 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

#91. When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.

Mick Mars

#92. I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he's gonna do tomorrow and I'm just happy to wake up to see who's hanging around. Mick's rock and I'm roll.

Keith Richards

#93. 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

#94. 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

#95. We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.

Mick Cornett

#96. I believe in infrastructure, I believe in investing in your hard assets. Where I think government starts to fail is when it starts getting itself weighed down with the social programs. And I think the American public just feels like a lot of that money is tossed aside and wasted.

Mick Cornett

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

Richie Sambora

#98. At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.

Mick Fleetwood

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

Mick Jagger

#100. You goin' out with Mick tomorrow night?" Jake growled, his eyes burning into me, his fury saturating the room.
"Not anymore," I whispered immediately.
"Good fuckin' answer, Slick,

Kristen Ashley