Mick Jagger Quotes

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 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.

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.

Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

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.

Time is on my side, yes it is.

Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.

I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.

He stole my music but he gave me my name.

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

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

I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don't see it as an immediate problem.

If you're really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first.

I can't get no satisfaction.

I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.

Too much is never enough.

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

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

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 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.

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

I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

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

I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.

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

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 now.

It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

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

I have to get up the fitness level, sing a lot, practice, get in the mood, and generally do lots of rehearsal. Get your body and mind ready.

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.

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.

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

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.

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

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

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.

Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

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.

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.

Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.

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

I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.

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.