Top 150 Mick Jagger Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “I don’t spend money on anything. I don’t collect anything. I don’t spend it on furniture.”

— Mick Jagger

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

— Mick Jagger

54. “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

55. “I’ve managed to avoid tattoos so far.”

— Mick Jagger

56. “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

57. “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.”

— Mick Jagger

58. “When I’m 33, I quit.”

— Mick Jagger

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

— Mick Jagger

60. “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

61. “I love America, but I can’t spend the whole year here. I can’t afford the taxes.”

— Mick Jagger

62. “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

63. “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

64. “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.”

— Mick Jagger

65. “Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it’s alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of marijuana and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been – it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.”

— Mick Jagger

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

— Mick Jagger

67. “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.”

— Mick Jagger

68. “I don’t want to be my extravert self all the time.”

— Mick Jagger

69. “People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don’t collect them.”

— Mick Jagger

70. “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.”

— Mick Jagger

71. “I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.”

— Mick Jagger

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

— Mick Jagger

73. “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

74. “There’s hundreds of different ways of writing songs.”

— Mick Jagger

75. “Any performer is one person privately and then he’s another person when he steps on the stage.”

— Mick Jagger

76. “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.”

— Mick Jagger

77. “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.”

— Mick Jagger

78. “It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.”

— Mick Jagger

79. “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.”

— Mick Jagger

80. “I haven’t had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven’t left it.”

— Mick Jagger

81. “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.”

— Mick Jagger

82. “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

83. “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

84. “My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.”

— Mick Jagger

85. “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.”

— Mick Jagger

86. “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.”

— Mick Jagger

87. “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

88. “My secrets must be poetic to be believable.”

— Mick Jagger

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

— Mick Jagger

90. “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.”

— Mick Jagger

91. “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

92. “I don’t really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn’t really worry me even if it’s like out of place. At least it’s relevant.”

— Mick Jagger

93. “I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there’s nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don’t produce as good things as you could.”

— Mick Jagger

94. “I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.”

— Mick Jagger

95. “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.”

— Mick Jagger

96. “I don’t think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.”

— Mick Jagger

97. “I wasn’t taking so many drugs that it was messing up my creative processes. It was a very good period, 1968 – there was a good feeling in the air. It was a very creative period for everyone.”

— Mick Jagger

98. “I was having a bit of trouble. I wasn’t in a good relationship. Or I was in too many bad relationships. I had so many girlfriends at that point. None of them seemed to care they weren’t pleasing me very much. I was obviously in with the wrong group.”

— Mick Jagger

99. “Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.”

— Mick Jagger

100. “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