He stole my music but he gave me my name.
MICK JAGGERHe stole my music but he gave me my name.
MICK JAGGERIt’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
MICK JAGGEREveryone knows what their roots are, but you’ve got to explore everywhere. You’ve got to explore the sky too.
MICK JAGGERThank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
MICK JAGGERIn England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
MICK JAGGERI 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 JAGGERI’d rather be dead than singing “Satisfaction” when I’m forty-five.
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 JAGGERYou 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 JAGGERIt’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.
MICK JAGGERMy mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
MICK JAGGERI don’t know if rock is dying. I wouldn’t want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
MICK JAGGERI think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.
MICK JAGGERI don’t think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It’s not necessarily some state of grace.
MICK JAGGERThe 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 JAGGERI 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