I always think it’s better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That’s not saying I’ve never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been – it didn’t take me that long to realize that it wasn’t a good thing.

— Mick Jagger

Mick Jagger Quotes

Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.

— Mick Jagger

I don’t think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.

— 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

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

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

I don’t spend money on anything. I don’t collect anything. I don’t spend it on furniture.

— Mick Jagger

Everyone in the movie industry wants to win an Oscar. I don’t think that’s why you make movies. But winning an Oscar is not just about making a great movie, unfortunately. It’s also having a good Oscar campaign.

— Mick Jagger

I was never that interested in business, to be honest. I do the minimal amount of business as possible because I’m not actually interested in it as a thing. But some people are interested in it, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

— Mick Jagger

The music’s rehearsed a lot. All people think about is, they think, in rock ‘n’ roll, they get the music off right and they think it’s okay standing, looking macho. Well, it’s not. That’s boring. If you want to be a performer you’ve got to do a lot more work than that.

— Mick Jagger

I don’t hate journalists. You can’t hate a class of people. It’s wrong to say that. But I do think they’re a bit like poison. Never trust them. You can’t trust them as a class of people. It’s their job not to be trusted.

— 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

It’s a real buzz, even in front of 20 people, to make a complete fool of yourself. But people seemed to like it. And the thing is, if people started throwing tomatoes at me, I wouldn’t have gone on with it.

— Mick Jagger

If you’re the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.

— Mick Jagger

Most people in England don’t live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.

— Mick Jagger

I didn’t really like being at college. It wasn’t like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.

— Mick Jagger

I don’t believe in astrology. It’s a lot of crap. I just think that’s another thing you should throw out the window. Mysticism. Cheap. It’s amazing that people still hang on to that after all these years.

— Mick Jagger

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 modern.

— Mick Jagger

Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it’s alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of marijuana and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been – it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.

— Mick Jagger

Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it’s also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive – because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.

— Mick Jagger

I don’t find it easy dealing with people with drug problems. It helps if you’re all taking drugs, all the same drugs.

— Mick Jagger
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