Mick Jagger Quotes

If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.

Rock has to absorb other rhythmic forms, because the underlying rhythm of music changes with fashion, and people like to move differently, and the underlying rhythms have to be the ones that people want to dance to.

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.

Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.

If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

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.

I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.

You've got to have fresh wardrobe. You can't just go out there looking like you did last time. That helps your transformation.

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.

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

People have different personalities when they're drunk or take heroin, or whatever drugs.

Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful welcome. It was a great show and we'll remember it forever.

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.

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.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it.

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.

Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.

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.

All dancing is a replacement for sex.

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

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

I can't get no satisfaction.

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.

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.

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.

I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I don't like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.

When Gimme Shelter was recorded, early '69 or something, it was a time of war and tension, so that's reflected in this tune. It's still wheeled out when big storms happen, as they did the other week. It's been used a lot to evoke natural disaster.

I love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes.

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

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

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.

It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

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

Dandelions don't tell no lies.

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

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

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.

I was never that interested in business, to be honest. I do the minimal amount of business as possible because I'm not actually interested in it as a thing. But some people are interested in it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.