Mick Jagger Quotes

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

The 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.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

A good thing never ends.

You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

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

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

Too much is never enough.

Everyone knows what their roots are, but you've got to explore everywhere. You've got to explore the sky too.

Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.

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.

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.

I've managed to avoid tattoos so far.

People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.

You can't be jealous and be a leader.

It's okay to let yourself go, just as long as you let yourself back.

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.