Mick Jagger Quotes

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

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.

I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.

I wasn't taking so many drugs that it was messing up my creative processes. It was a very good period, 1968 - there was a good feeling in the air. It was a very creative period for everyone.

I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.

I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there's nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don't produce as good things as you could.

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 find it easy dealing with people with drug problems. It helps if you're all taking drugs, all the same drugs.

I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.

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

Either we stay at home and become pillars of the community or we go out and tour. We couldn't really find any communities that still needed pillars.

You have to realize that everyone in a band is all more or less together, and everyone has their own niche, and some people lead in some ways, and some people lead in others.

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

Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.

Have I turned into a motorized preacher? We spend so much time in cars that if you don't try to get some experiences out of it, you can go crazy.

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

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

You don't have to bathe every day to look clean. It's just an illusion.

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

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.

Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.

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

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

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.

No matter what Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious do, they can't be more disgusting than The Rolling Stones are in an orgy of biting.

I've managed to avoid tattoos so far.

I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.

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

Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.

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

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

Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.

Boys, as far as England was concerned, were always the hard core. And you just know the guys like it. They want to be you. Some might be attracted to you without knowing it.

People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!

We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.

The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.

I don't believe in original melodies. There are only so many computations of eight notes.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.

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

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

Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.

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

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

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