Mick Jagger quotes

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

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
- Mick Jagger

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

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

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.
- Mick Jagger

A good thing never ends.
- Mick Jagger

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.
- Mick Jagger

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.
- Mick Jagger

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

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.
- Mick Jagger

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
- Mick Jagger

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.
- 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

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

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

You can't be jealous and be a leader.
- Mick Jagger

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

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.
- Mick Jagger

He stole my music but he gave me my name.
- Mick Jagger

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