Mick Jagger Quotes
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My father was furious with me, absolutely furious. I'm sure he wouldn't have been so mad if I'd have volunteered to join the army. Anything but this. He couldn't believe it. I agree with him: It wasn't a viable career opportunity.
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We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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Rock 'n' roll and playing live is very addictive. But you have to really be careful, because you don't want to do it all the time. It's like when you are young and you think if you are not having sex you're wasting your time. But as you get older you realise everything has its place. It's the same thing with performing.... Performing is a great thing to do but you don't want to have to be doing it every night.
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I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.
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Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.
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Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.
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If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.
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Taking drugs on a recreation level is one thing. But taking them while you're working on a stage is, I don't think it was that great. It's the control factor. And the thing about being on stage, you really want to feel that you're sort of in control a lot. It's not a place where you want to be out of control.
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A good thing never ends.
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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
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The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.
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Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.
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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.
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Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.
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I can't get no satisfaction.
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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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Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.
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People also like partnerships because they can identify with the drama of two people in partnership. They can feed off a partnership, and that keeps people entertained. Besides, if you have a successful partnership, it's self-sustaining.
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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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I don't hate journalists. You can't hate a class of people. It's wrong to say that. But I do think they're a bit like poison. Never trust them. You can't trust them as a class of people. It's their job not to be trusted.
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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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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.
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I don't believe in having bands for solo records.