Quotes By Mick Jagger

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

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

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

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

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

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

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45.

When I'm 33, I quit.

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

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.

The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

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.

A good thing never ends.

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.

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

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

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.