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.

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.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

Dandelions don't tell no lies.

You can't be jealous and be a leader.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They've got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.

When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.

It's Only Rock and Roll.

Well, don't we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?

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.