Mick Jagger Quotes
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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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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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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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You don't have to bathe every day to look clean. It's just an illusion.
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It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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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 am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.
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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
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It's Only Rock and Roll.
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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.
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People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.
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Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.
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I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.
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Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
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I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.
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Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.
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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 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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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.
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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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Movies in this country, its very complicated, and we could bang on about it forever, but the French movie industry is very different because its very obviously French.
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I don't find it easy dealing with people with drug problems. It helps if you're all taking drugs, all the same drugs.
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I love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes.
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For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.