Mick Jagger Quotations | Page 2

I don't believe in astrology. It's a lot of crap. I just think that's another thing you should throw out the window. Mysticism. Cheap. It's amazing that people still hang on to that after all these years.

Starting off in music, the purpose of it was not to become like well known on the street and be famous. You know, I didn't even think about that part of being famous. Famous for making records, yes, but famous face in a woman's magazine, I never thought of that. I didn't want that.

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.

The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.

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

Rock has to absorb other rhythmic forms, because the underlying rhythm of music changes with fashion, and people like to move differently, and the underlying rhythms have to be the ones that people want to dance to.

I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don't see it as an immediate problem.

Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.

Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.

Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.

I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.

Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don't think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.

Boys, as far as England was concerned, were always the hard core. And you just know the guys like it. They want to be you. Some might be attracted to you without knowing it.

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.

Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.

Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.

I can't get no satisfaction.

I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.

It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

I would like to reach a balance and forget a few things.

I liked John a lot. He was the one I really got on with the most. We weren't buddy-buddies but we were always friendly. But after the Beatles and the Stones stopped playing clubs, we didn't see each other that much until he separated from Yoko, around 1974. We got really friendly again. And when he went back with Yoko, he went into hibernation ... when I went to visit someone in the Dakota, I'd leave him a note saying: 'I live next door: I know you don't want to see anyone, but if you do, please call.' He never did.

Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.

Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.

It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.

Have I turned into a motorized preacher? We spend so much time in cars that if you don't try to get some experiences out of it, you can go crazy.

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

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.

I don't like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.

I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.

I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.

I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.

I don't watch much ESPN. Unless they have soccer on.

Too much is never enough.

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.

I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.

Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.

The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.

Something that you can't play in your kitchen is rap. It is done in your neighbour's kitchen.

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.

There's no great technical expertise in being a movie producer.

When we heard we were topping the bill over James Brown we couldn't believe it. We tried for two days to get it changed round - I mean you can't follow an act like that.

Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.

Well, don't we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?

People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!

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.

I'd done a very long project on Bridges To Babylon. I was on the road for ages with that. When I came off the road, I thought, the next thing I want to do on my own.

I've managed to avoid tattoos so far.

Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful welcome. It was a great show and we'll remember it forever.

I don't want to be my extravert self all the time.

Time is on my side, yes it is.

I love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes

I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.

When Gimme Shelter was recorded, early '69 or something, it was a time of war and tension, so that's reflected in this tune. It's still wheeled out when big storms happen, as they did the other week. It's been used a lot to evoke natural disaster.

You know, being in a rock band, you can't overdo the costume changes too much because everyone thinks, 'Oh, that's not a real rock band. Look how many times he changes costumes! That's not rock. Rock's about going on in a T-shirt and staying in it and getting it all dirty.' But that's not really my approach.

I have to get up the fitness level, sing a lot, practice, get in the mood, and generally do lots of rehearsal. Get your body and mind ready.

You've got to have fresh wardrobe. You can't just go out there looking like you did last time. That helps your transformation.

I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.

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.

He stole my music but he gave me my name.

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.

I was never that interested in business, to be honest. I do the minimal amount of business as possible because I'm not actually interested in it as a thing. But some people are interested in it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

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.

I used to play Saturday night shows with different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. I used to do mad things - I used to go and do these shows and go on my knees and roll on the ground - when I was 15,16 years old. And my parents were extremely disapproving of it all. Because it was just not done. This was for very low-class people, remember. Rock & roll singers weren't educated people

If you're really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first.

I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.

I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.

You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.

You can't always get what you want.

In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They've got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.

You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to behave.

I don't want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags

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

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.

Quite often when I record a song, writing it and making a demo is the big thing and, after that, I think, how do I actually translate this into real life? A lot of the time I think I can't be bothered.

When you start a new project, no matter if it's a movie like Enigma or an album like Goddess, you are always learning something. While I search, I find something new.

Anyone taking heroin is thinking about taking heroin more than they're thinking about anything else. That's the general rule about most drugs.

I don't only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn't want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.

Lets drink to the hard working people Lets drink to the salt of the earth

No one, but no one, is equal, or ever will be. Elvis was and is supreme.

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

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.

When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.

If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

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.

It's a real buzz, even in front of 20 people, to make a complete fool of yourself. But people seemed to like it. And the thing is, if people started throwing tomatoes at me, I wouldn't have gone on with it.

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

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.

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.

I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.

I always think it's better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That's not saying I've never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been - it didn't take me that long to realize that it wasn't a good thing.

The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the early '60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress.

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.

I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.

If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.

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.

I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, "Well, I can do this." And I liked doing it.

Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.