I’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
MICK JAGGERI’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
MICK JAGGERMy secrets must be poetic to be believable.
MICK JAGGERTime is on my side, yes it is.
MICK JAGGERPeople are so brainwashed by the rules that they don’t know what really matters.
MICK JAGGEREveryone knows what their roots are, but you’ve got to explore everywhere. You’ve got to explore the sky too.
MICK JAGGERI got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
MICK JAGGERI don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.
MICK JAGGERThe 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 JAGGERDon’t you think it’s sometimes wise not to grow up.
MICK JAGGERPeople 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 JAGGERToo much is never enough.
MICK JAGGERA good thing never ends.
MICK JAGGEROf course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
MICK JAGGERLose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
MICK JAGGERThe 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 JAGGERI 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