Quotes By Mick Jagger
Artist
Mick Jagger
Jul 26, 1943 - present
I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
No one, but no one, is equal, or ever will be. Elvis was and is supreme.
I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.
If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.
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.
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.
I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.
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.
I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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