Top 150 Mick Jagger Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.”

— Mick Jagger

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2. “Time is on my side, yes it is.”

— Mick Jagger

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3. “You can’t always get what you want.”

— Mick Jagger

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4. “I can’t get any satisfaction.”

— Mick Jagger

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5. “It’s Only Rock and Roll.”

— Mick Jagger

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

— Mick Jagger

7. “People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.”

— Mick Jagger

8. “Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.”

— Mick Jagger

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

— Mick Jagger

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

— Mick Jagger

11. “A good thing never ends.”

— Mick Jagger

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

— Mick Jagger

13. “Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.”

— Mick Jagger

14. “I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.”

— Mick Jagger

15. “Life’s just a cocktail party – on the street.”

— Mick Jagger

16. “I’d rather be dead than singing ‘Satisfaction’ when I’m forty-five.”

— Mick Jagger

17. “I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.”

— Mick Jagger

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

— Mick Jagger

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

— Mick Jagger

20. “I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.”

— Mick Jagger

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

— Mick Jagger

22. “It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.”

— Mick Jagger

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

— Mick Jagger

24. “Dandelions don’t tell no lies...”

— Mick Jagger

25. “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

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

— Mick Jagger

27. “You can’t be jealous and be a leader.”

— Mick Jagger

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

— Mick Jagger

29. “He stole my music but he gave me my name.”

— Mick Jagger

30. “The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.”

— Mick Jagger

31. “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.”

— Mick Jagger

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

— Mick Jagger

33. “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

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

— Mick Jagger

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

— Mick Jagger

36. “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.”

— Mick Jagger

37. “Everyone knows what their roots are, but you’ve got to explore everywhere. You’ve got to explore the sky too.”

— Mick Jagger

38. “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

39. “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.”

— Mick Jagger

40. “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.”

— Mick Jagger

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

— Mick Jagger

42. “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

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

— Mick Jagger

44. “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

45. “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

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

— Mick Jagger

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

— Mick Jagger

48. “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

49. “When I’m 33, I quit.”

— Mick Jagger

50. “I don’t hate journalists. You can’t hate a class of people. It’s wrong to say that. But I do think they’re a bit like poison. Never trust them. You can’t trust them as a class of people. It’s their job not to be trusted.”

— Mick Jagger