Mick Jagger quotes . Biography .
Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English singer, songwriter, actor, and film producer who has achieved international fame as the lead vocalist and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones.
His songwriting partnership with Keith Richards is one of the most successful in history.
Jagger’s career has spanned over six decades, and he has been described as “one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history of rock & roll”.
In 1989, Jagger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2004 into the UK Music Hall of Fame with the Rolling Stones.
As a member of the Rolling Stones, and as a solo artist, he reached number one on the UK and US singles charts with 13 singles, the top 10 with 32 singles and the top 40 with 70 singles.
In 2003, he was knighted for his services to popular music.
Here are the top 60 Mick Jagger quotes about music :
“A good thing never ends.”–Mick Jagger
“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.”–Mick Jagger
“You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.”–Mick Jagger
“It’s nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.”–Mick Jagger
“The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.”–Mick Jagger
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“There’s hundreds of different ways of writing songs.”–Mick Jagger
“Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.”–Mick Jagger
“I’d rather be dead than singing ‘Satisfaction’ when I’m 45.”–Mick Jagger
“You’ve got to have fresh wardrobe. You can’t just go out there looking like you did last time. That helps your transformation.”–Mick Jagger
“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.”–Mick Jagger
“Time is on my side, yes it is.”–Mick Jagger
“You don’t always do the same things you’ve done the night before. That’s what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.”–Mick Jagger
“Starting off in music, the purpose of it was not to become like well known on the street and be famous. You know, I didn’t even think about that part of being famous. Famous for making records, yes, but famous face in a woman’s magazine, I never thought of that. I didn’t want that.”–Mick Jagger
“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.”–Mick Jagger
“Rock has to absorb other rhythmic forms, because the underlying rhythm of music changes with fashion, and people like to move differently, and the underlying rhythms have to be the ones that people want to dance to.”–Mick Jagger
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“It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money.”–Mick Jagger
“Rock & roll mostly is a very butch thing, and it appeals to one hard side of the masculine character. But I don’t think the Rolling Stones are only a rock band. They can be other things. They can be very feminine.”–Mick Jagger
“I don’t only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn’t want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.”–Mick Jagger
“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.”–Mick Jagger
“Quite often when I record a song, writing it and making a demo is the big thing and, after that, I think, how do I actually translate this into real life? A lot of the time I think I can’t be bothered.”–Mick Jagger
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“Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.”–Mick Jagger
“When 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 Jagger
“It’s heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It’s a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.”–Mick Jagger
“Country music… doesn’t bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it’s very English, really. Even though it’s been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.”–Mick Jagger
“You have to realize that everyone in a band is all more or less together, and everyone has their own niche, and some people lead in some ways, and some people lead in others.”–Mick Jagger
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“My secrets must be poetic to be believable.”–Mick Jagger
“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.”–Mick Jagger
“I don’t really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn’t really worry me even if it’s like out of place. At least it’s relevant.”–Mick Jagger
“I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.”–Mick Jagger
“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.”–Mick Jagger
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“Too much is never enough.” –Mick Jagger
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“That’s one of the good things about a lot of the young British bands, they are mixing all styles of music. I think that’s very good because that’s very now.”–Mick Jagger
“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.”–Mick Jagger
“Writing a song is like – you’re writing a song all the time. It’s just when it pops out. It’s been there all the time. It’s not something that suddenly you do it. It’s always there. Suddenly, it’s in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you’re writing on the piano or a guitar, you don’t write in lyrics, on their own. To me it’s very boring.”–Mick Jagger
“You know, being in a rock band, you can’t overdo the costume changes too much because everyone thinks, oh, that’s not a real rock band. Look how many times he changes costumes. That’s not rock. Rock’s about going on in a T-shirt and staying in it and getting it all dirty. But that’s not really my approach.”–Mick Jagger
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“You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.”–Mick Jagger
“It’s Only Rock and Roll.”–Mick Jagger
“I can’t get no satisfaction.”–Mick Jagger
“I don’t believe in having bands for solo records.”–Mick Jagger
“I don’t want to be my extravert self all the time.”–Mick Jagger
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“I don’t think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.”–Mick Jagger
“I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.”–Mick Jagger
“It’s okay to let yourself go, just as long as you let yourself back.”–Mick Jagger
“No one, but no one, is equal, or ever will be. Elvis was and is supreme.”–Mick Jagger
“I don’t want to be singing Satisfaction when I’m 40.”–Mick Jagger
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“Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money.”–Mick Jagger
“Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.”–Mick Jagger
“Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.”–Mick Jagger
“If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.”–Mick Jagger
“People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.”–Mick Jagger
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“I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.”–Mick Jagger
“I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.”–Mick Jagger
“We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.”–Mick Jagger
“You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.”–Mick Jagger
“I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.”–Mick Jagger
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“I don’t believe in original melodies. There are only so many computations of eight notes.”–Mick Jagger
“Something that you can’t play in your kitchen is rap. It is done in your neighbour’s kitchen.”–Mick Jagger
“I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That’s why I tend to forget my songs.”–Mick Jagger
“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.”–Mick Jagger
“He stole my music but he gave me my name.”–Mick Jagger
