Mick Jagger Quotes

I've managed to avoid tattoos so far.

I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

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

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

I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

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

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.

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

I 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.

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.

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 can't get no satisfaction.

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

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

A good thing never ends.

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

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.