Mick Jagger Quotes
"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
(Related: Past, Regret, Want)
"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
(Related: Time, Old)
"The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Life, Reading)
"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."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Life, Drugs, Fashion, Talk)
"Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Attention, Giving)
"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."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Nature, Love)
"I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Work)
"I got nasty habits; I take tea at three."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Habits, Tea)
"I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Day, Will)
"I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Time)
"I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Forget, Past, Songs)
"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
(Related: Business, Artist)
"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."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Music)
"Anything worth doing is worth overdoing."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Worth)
"Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Hope, Anarchy)
"A good thing never ends."
- Mick Jagger
"I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?"
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Business, School)
"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."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Love, Women, Time, People, First, Memories, Talking)
"I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Singing)
"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Right)
"Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Dreams, Mind)
"My secrets must be poetic to be believable."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Secrets)
"Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Patriotism, War)
"People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: People, Care, Thoughtful)
"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
(Related: Day, Songs)
"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."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: People, Obsession, Want, Youth)
"I can't get no satisfaction."
- Mick Jagger
(Related: Satisfaction)