Mick Jagger Quotes
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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.
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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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.
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I'm pleased that the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of the expat bankers and their girlfriends that are going to be coming.
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It's Only Rock and Roll.
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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.
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The music's rehearsed a lot. All people think about is, they think, in rock 'n' roll, they get the music off right and they think it's okay standing, looking macho. Well, it's not. That's boring. If you want to be a performer you've got to do a lot more work than that.
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It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
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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.
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Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of marijuana and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been - it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.
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I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
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I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.
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A good thing never ends.
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I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.
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Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.
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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.
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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.
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Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.
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I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.
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Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.
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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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I would like to reach a balance and forget a few things.
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The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
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My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.