Mick Jagger Quotes - Page 2

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

I'm not the businessman. I don't deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I've run out of money, I have to go and make some more.

Time is on my side, yes it is.

People 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.

I'm very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people... sort of like saying, once you get married you are on the highway to heaven, and quite often it isn't that. I think marriage has always been based on a combination of religious and legal reasons.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

You can't always get what you want.

All dancing is a replacement for sex.

Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant

It's Only Rock and Roll.

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

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

No one, but no one, is equal, or ever will be. Elvis was and is supreme.

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.

I can't get no satisfaction.

One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.

They're so boring. They're so pathetic, all those journalists. Most of them are. Most of those kind that write gossip stuff, and most of it's gossip. Things are just invented about your personal life and you just have to take that. It's bullshit. People believe it, though. They just believe everything they read.

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

I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, 'You should never sing the lyrics out very clearly.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

Well, don't we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?

Rock 'n' roll and playing live is very addictive. But you have to really be careful, because you don't want to do it all the time. It's like when you are young and you think if you are not having sex you're wasting your time. But as you get older you realise everything has its place. It's the same thing with performing.... Performing is a great thing to do but you don't want to have to be doing it every night.

Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.