Mick Jagger Quotes

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

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.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

A good thing never ends.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant

Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

You can't always get what you want.

Everyone knows what their roots are, but you've got to explore everywhere. You've got to explore the sky too.

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.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

Dandelions don't tell no lies.

All dancing is a replacement for sex.

You can't be jealous and be a leader.

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.

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

I don't think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It's not necessarily some state of grace.

Lets drink to the hard working people Lets drink to the salt of the earth

Rock 'n' roll and playing live is very addictive. But you have to really be careful, because you don't want to do it all the time. It's like when you are young and you think if you are not having sex you're wasting your time. But as you get older you realise everything has its place. It's the same thing with performing.... Performing is a great thing to do but you don't want to have to be doing it every night.

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.

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

Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.

I think it's very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don't talk about. That's why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.

Anyone taking heroin is thinking about taking heroin more than they're thinking about anything else. That's the general rule about most drugs.

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

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.

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.

Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.

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.

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.

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.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

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.

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.

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.

Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.

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.

I'm interested in feedback and learning what people want. It's a tricky thing for me when I do a set list. You get bored doing the same songs. Let's say we do one ballad in two hours, and it's "Wild Horses." If you say, I'm tired of that, let's try something less well known, and then you're out there stumbling through this song you just relearned at sound check, and you realize people probably want "Wild Horses" instead of this. You do need to do some songs that aren't so well known. The question is how many? I'm open to people posting their requests.