Sir Michael Philip Jagger is an English singer, songwriter, actor, and film producer who has gained worldwide fame as the lead singer and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones. Jagger’s career has spanned over five decades, and he has been 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 Keith Richards’ guitar style, have been the trademark of the Rolling Stones throughout the band’s career. Jagger gained press notoriety for his romantic involvements and was often portrayed as a countercultural figure. These Mick Jagger quotes will motivate you in life.
Best 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
- “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “A good thing never ends.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “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
- “I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.” ~ Mick Jagger
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“There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “As long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “Everyone knows what their roots are, but you’ve got to explore everywhere. You’ve got to explore the sky too.” ~ 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.” ~ 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.” ~ 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
- “People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant” ~ Mick Jagger
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“It’s Only Rock and Roll.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “Too much is never enough.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “You can’t be jealous and be a leader.” ~ 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.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “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.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “No one, but no one, is equal, or ever will be. Elvis was and is supreme.” ~ Mick Jagger
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“I don’t want to be my extravert self all the time.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “It’s okay to let yourself go, just as long as you let yourself back.” ~ 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.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “Life’s just a cocktail party – on the street.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “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.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “Time is on my side, yes it is.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “All dancing is a replacement for sex.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “Well, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?” ~ Mick Jagger
- “I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “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.” ~ 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
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“I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “I’m very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people… sort of like saying, once you get married you are on the highway to heaven, and quite often it isn’t that. I think marriage has always been based on a combination of religious and legal reasons.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “You can’t always get what you want.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “Lets drink to the hard-working people
Lets drink to the salt of the earth” ~ Mick Jagger - “Anyone taking heroin is thinking about taking heroin more than they’re thinking about anything else. That’s the general rule about most drugs.” ~ Mick Jagger Quotes
- “I think it’s very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don’t talk about. That’s why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.” ~ Mick Jagger
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“Dandelions don’t tell no lies.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “I don’t know if rock is dying. I wouldn’t want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “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
- “Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “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
- “I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.” ~ 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
- “I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.” ~ Mick Jagger
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“Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “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.” ~ Mick Jagger Quotes
- “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.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “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.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “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.” ~ Mick Jagger
