Mick Jagger Quotes

I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

I don't watch much ESPN. Unless they have soccer on.

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

It's okay to let yourself go, just as long as you let yourself back.

I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.

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

I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.

I don't know if rock is dying. I wouldn't want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.

It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.

I don't think there's anything wrong with having sex, you know. At any age.

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

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.

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

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.

I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.

I would like to reach a balance and forget a few things.

There's no great technical expertise in being a movie producer.

When we heard we were topping the bill over James Brown we couldn't believe it. We tried for two days to get it changed round - I mean you can't follow an act like that.

Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.

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

People also like partnerships because they can identify with the drama of two people in partnership. They can feed off a partnership, and that keeps people entertained. Besides, if you have a successful partnership, it's self-sustaining.

It's like everyone I have dinner with, I'm having an affair with. Who was it I met the other day? Minnie Driver! She seems charming, but that's the only time I've met her.

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

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

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

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

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.

I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.

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

You can't always get what you want.

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.

I don't hate journalists. You can't hate a class of people. It's wrong to say that. But I do think they're a bit like poison. Never trust them. You can't trust them as a class of people. It's their job not to be trusted.

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.

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

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.

You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.

No one, but no one, is equal, or ever will be. Elvis was and is supreme.

There is something I like about talking to journalists that really goes beyond promotion because you aren't just talking to the journalist, but you are talking through them to people who presumably are fans of the Rolling Stones. The interviews give you a chance to say a few things and maybe clear up some of the things people read about the band.

Something that you can't play in your kitchen is rap. It is done in your neighbour's kitchen.

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'd done a very long project on Bridges To Babylon. I was on the road for ages with that. When I came off the road, I thought, the next thing I want to do on my own.

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.

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.

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.

Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.

Time is on my side, yes it is.