Top 150 Mick Jagger Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.”

— Mick Jagger

102. “I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I’m tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.”

— Mick Jagger

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

— Mick Jagger

104. “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

105. “Of course, I do occasionally arouse primeval instincts, but I mean, most men can do that. They can’t do it to so many. I just happen to be able to do it to several thousand people. It’s fun to do that.”

— Mick Jagger

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

— Mick Jagger

107. “Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents.”

— Mick Jagger

108. “When you start a new project, no matter if it’s a movie like Enigma or an album like Goddess, you are always learning something. While I search, I find something new.”

— Mick Jagger

109. “Have I turned into a motorized preacher? We spend so much time in cars that if you don’t try to get some experiences out of it, you can go crazy.”

— Mick Jagger

110. “If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.”

— Mick Jagger

111. “Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.”

— Mick Jagger

112. “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

113. “In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They’ve got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens.”

— Mick Jagger

114. “I really don’t see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I’ve been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.”

— Mick Jagger

115. “I’d done a very long project on Bridges To Babylon. I was on the road for ages with that. When I came off the road, I thought, the next thing I want to do on my own.”

— Mick Jagger

116. “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 modern.”

— Mick Jagger

117. “I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.”

— Mick Jagger

118. “I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.”

— Mick Jagger

119. “Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it’s also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive – because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.”

— Mick Jagger

120. “If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.”

— Mick Jagger

121. “People have different personalities when they’re drunk or take heroin, or whatever drugs.”

— Mick Jagger

122. “I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.”

— Mick Jagger

123. “I wasn’t understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.”

— Mick Jagger

124. “Boys, as far as England was concerned, were always the hard core. And you just know the guys like it. They want to be you. Some might be attracted to you without knowing it.”

— Mick Jagger

125. “Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.”

— Mick Jagger

126. “Movies in this country, its very complicated, and we could bang on about it forever, but the French movie industry is very different because its very obviously French.”

— Mick Jagger

127. “When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can’t force them to like it.”

— Mick Jagger

128. “I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.”

— Mick Jagger

129. “Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.”

— Mick Jagger

130. “I don’t really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.”

— Mick Jagger

131. “Something that you can’t play in your kitchen is rap. It is done in your neighbour’s kitchen.”

— Mick Jagger

132. “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

133. “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

134. “I don’t believe in having bands for solo records.”

— Mick Jagger

135. “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

136. “I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.”

— Mick Jagger

137. “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

138. “I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.”

— Mick Jagger

139. “You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.”

— Mick Jagger

140. “The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.”

— Mick Jagger

141. “I was never that interested in business, to be honest. I do the minimal amount of business as possible because I’m not actually interested in it as a thing. But some people are interested in it, and there’s nothing wrong with that.”

— Mick Jagger

142. “It’s nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.”

— Mick Jagger

143. “Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.”

— Mick Jagger

144. “The music’s rehearsed a lot. All people think about is, they think, in rock ‘n’ roll, they get the music off right and they think it’s okay standing, looking macho. Well, it’s not. That’s boring. If you want to be a performer you’ve got to do a lot more work than that.”

— Mick Jagger

145. “I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?”

— Mick Jagger

146. “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

147. “You don’t always do the same things you’ve done the night before. That’s what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.”

— Mick Jagger

148. “Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.”

— Mick Jagger

149. “Everyone in the movie industry wants to win an Oscar. I don’t think that’s why you make movies. But winning an Oscar is not just about making a great movie, unfortunately. It’s also having a good Oscar campaign.”

— Mick Jagger

150. “Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.”

— Mick Jagger