Mick Jagger Quotes
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I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.
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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.
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It's okay to let yourself go, just as long as you let yourself back.
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People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!
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Everyone knows what their roots are, but you've got to explore everywhere. You've got to explore the sky too.
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No one, but no one, is equal, or ever will be. Elvis was and is supreme.
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There's not many Americans, certainly not many of the teenagers I met when I first went to America, knew anything about blues musicians at all. … They do now, which is very groovy.
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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.
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I don't want to be a rock star all my life.
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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.
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It's hard to believe that you did so many drugs for so long. That's what I find really hard. And didn't really consider it. It was eating and drinking and taking drugs and having sex. It was just part of life.
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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.
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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.
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I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.
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Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.
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Well, don't we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don't have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Let's do some living, after we die Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…
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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.
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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.
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Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.
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There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.
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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.
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I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.