You can’t always get what you want.
MICK JAGGERYou can’t always get what you want.
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 JAGGERMusic 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 JAGGERPeople think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
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 JAGGERI don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
MICK JAGGERHe stole my music but he gave me my name.
MICK JAGGERI prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
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 JAGGERThere’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.
MICK JAGGEROf course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.
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 JAGGERMy secrets must be poetic to be believable.
MICK JAGGERWhen 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 JAGGERTime is on my side, yes it is.
MICK JAGGERWell, don’t we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
MICK JAGGER