Top 193 Quotes & Sayings by Mick Jagger

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English singer Mick Jagger.

Last updated on November 22, 2024.

Sir Michael Philip Jagger is an English singer, songwriter, actor, and film producer who has achieved international fame as the lead vocalist and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones. His ongoing songwriting partnership with Keith Richards is one of the most successful in history. Jagger's career has spanned over six decades, and he has been widely described as one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history of rock & roll. His distinctive voice and energetic live performances, along with Richards' guitar style, have been the Rolling Stones' trademark throughout the band's career. Jagger gained press notoriety for his romantic involvements and illicit drug use — and was often portrayed as a countercultural figure.

English - Singer | Born: July 26, 1943

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Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

Mick Jagger

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

Mick Jagger

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Mick Jagger

We have a lot of secondary market problems in the U.K.; it's really bad there. And lots of artists are starting to participate in it, because they put the tickets up at a certain price, then the tickets get marked up by the secondary sellers, and someone else gets twice as much as you.

Mick Jagger

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

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A good thing never ends.

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I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band.

Mick Jagger

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

Mick Jagger

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

Mick Jagger

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

Mick Jagger

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

Mick Jagger

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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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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I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it.

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I've managed to avoid tattoos so far.

Mick Jagger

I can't get no satisfaction.

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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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The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.

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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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Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

Mick Jagger

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Mick Jagger

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.

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People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.

Mick Jagger

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.

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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

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I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.

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A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

Mick Jagger

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

Mick Jagger

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

Mick Jagger

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

Mick Jagger

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.

Mick Jagger

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.

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I'm very much against the secondary ticket market. I don't know anyone who isn't.

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I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

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All dancing is a replacement for sex.

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Too much is never enough.

Mick Jagger

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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People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Mick Jagger

Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can't be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that's always good.

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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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It's okay to let yourself go, just as long as you let yourself back.

Mick Jagger

You can't be jealous and be a leader.

Mick Jagger

Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

Mick Jagger

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

Mick Jagger

I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.

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Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

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I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.

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It's Only Rock and Roll.

Mick Jagger

One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.

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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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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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You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex.

Mick Jagger

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

Mick Jagger

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

Mick Jagger

They're so boring. They're so pathetic, all those journalists. Most of them are. Most of those kind that write gossip stuff, and most of it's gossip. Things are just invented about your personal life and you just have to take that. It's bullshit. People believe it, though. They just believe everything they read.

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Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.

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You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

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You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant

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Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.

Mick Jagger