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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People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!
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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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I don't want to be a rock star all my life.
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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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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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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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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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Well, don't we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
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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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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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I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my 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 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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I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
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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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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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I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.
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Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.
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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.
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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.