Top 70 Quotes about Mick Jagger

Growing up, as much as country was a big influence in my life, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and Led Zeppelin were such a close second. My first concert ever was the Rolling Stones in Denver. I snuck a camera backstage and filmed Mick Jagger during sound-check.

And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.

My mother thinks Mick Jagger is a foreign car.

Growing up, I was so inspired by front men like Mick Jagger, Freddie Mercury, and Kurt Cobain – real showmen that put on ‘a performance’ every time they walk out on stage – so it’s important for me to feel like I deliver that.

Mick Jagger is 70 and still singing ‘Satisfaction’ every concert. That would drive me insane.

Growing up, I was so inspired by front men like Mick Jagger, Freddie Mercury, and Kurt Cobain – real showmen that put on ‘a performance’ every time they walk out on stage – so it’s important for me to feel like I deliver that.

I don’t know which way I’m going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don’t know. I love a challenge.

I had lovely boyfriends. For your first three boyfriends to be Mick Jagger, Todd Rundgren, and David Bowie, I don’t think anyone would have a problem with that.

Growing up, as much as country was a big influence in my life, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and Led Zeppelin were such a close second. My first concert ever was the Rolling Stones in Denver. I snuck a camera backstage and filmed Mick Jagger during sound-check.

Mick Jagger visited us backstage and told us how much he liked our show. Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts came back too, and they wanted to get their pictures taken with us. Bill Wyman knew our chart positions. I couldn’t believe it.

I didn’t appreciate Mick Jagger until I got older, and mainly because of the Mick Jagger swagger. He defined that for the world. He was bold and adventurous with it, too – just the ultimate rock star.

I’d love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary.

To me, my peers are Bruce Springsteen and Mick Jagger. I’m not talking age-wise, but in terms of careers. Madonna. Those are my peers. And I’m okay with that.

Everything that was interesting was outside of Poland. Great music, art, film, hippies, Mick Jagger. It was impossible even to dream of escape. I was convinced as a teen-ager that I would have to spend the rest of my life in this trap.

I did a video with Mick Jagger down in Rio de Janeiro. But I played a video director, and that’s the closest I’ve gotten to directing, except Bob Dylan came and had a few meetings with me about doing a video for him.

The next innovation, Sensavision, will be like a Walkman attached to your forehead. You won’t actually have your head wired because infrared wires will send signals to you. In 2007 Mick Jagger will be on stage, and when Mick feels heat, you’ll feel heat.

Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.

I remember Mick Jagger asking me ‘hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?’ I said ‘Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.

All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.

Mick Jagger knows how to run a show. It’s all about pacing. It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon. His output is amazing, but his movements are subtle. As I get older, I’ll have to adhere to these rules.

I had lovely boyfriends. For your first three boyfriends to be Mick Jagger, Todd Rundgren, and David Bowie, I don’t think anyone would have a problem with that.

I remember Mick Jagger asking me ‘hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?’ I said ‘Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.

Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.

Once I was finally liberated from my Kansas background, the first thing I did was get a sewing machine, because it’s 1972, and I have to look like Mick Jagger and David Bowie every single second. Taffeta jumpsuits.

I look up to Mick Jagger because he’s an amazing performer and he’s such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.

Mick Jagger is one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, just for how much he puts into it onstage.

I’ll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don’t have a great voice for radio. My voice is the utterly normal voice, but sheer repetition has made them think it’s OK. Mick Jagger once was asked, ‘What makes a hit song? He said, ‘Repetition.’

That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can’t get no satisfaction.

I’m doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It’s a wonderful script.

I look up to Mick Jagger because he’s an amazing performer and he’s such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.

Everything that was interesting was outside of Poland. Great music, art, film, hippies, Mick Jagger. It was impossible even to dream of escape. I was convinced as a teen-ager that I would have to spend the rest of my life in this trap.

They asked me to sing – actually, it was Dee Dee, because he had seen me in Sniper and thought I wasn’t like anybody else. Everybody else was doing an Iggy or a Mick Jagger.

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

If somebody says to you, ‘MTV,’ you think of Mick Jagger on a phone screaming at that phone: ‘I want my MTV.’ That, to me, was always the epitome of great advertising.

I’ve wanted to be Mick Jagger since I was 18. One of the things I love about music is that you don’t have to be dependent on other people like you are in the film business. I hate being dependent on anyone. With my music, I can do whatever I want. I also think it’s made me more relaxed as an actress.

When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can’t get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he’s either lying or not all that bright.

I couldn’t sing like Mick Jagger, not that I wanted to.

I am a fan of Mick Jagger and the Stones.

Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only followed in his footsteps.

Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.

My first gigs were at university: I’d dress up as Jesus, jump off a cross and dance to a Mick Jagger song. I don’t know if it was funny or not, but it was a start.

We’ve never been, really, singers or performers. We are a little bit but we are not like Mick Jagger or Keith Richards or anyone like that.

As Mick Jagger will tell you, performing is an aerobic work-out. I’ve got the bass guitar, which is the heaviest of all the instruments, and I’m a little girl, in boiling-hot leather under the lights. You have to keep the fitness level up if you want to look good up there.

One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn’t get in cause it was to crowded.

I’m big fans of all those musicians, B.B. King, Mick Jagger – they’re all on my iPod.

I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.

It is hard to find the soul of Mick Jagger. It is very hidden. I think his true personality has receded so far behind the facade that he can no longer find the real person himself.

Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.

I was in an unhappy relationship with Todd Rundgren. He cheated on me and I was like, if you can go out with her, then I’ll go out with Mick Jagger!

I didn’t appreciate Mick Jagger until I got older, and mainly because of the Mick Jagger swagger. He defined that for the world. He was bold and adventurous with it, too – just the ultimate rock star.

Mick Jagger has been an idol of mine since I was 10 years old. Through his music, he has taught me so much about rock n’ roll, but also about the blues and about the experience of live music, going to several Rolling Stones shows, growing up.

I know people may find this hard to believe, but there were lots of times when I would be just too tired to go out. I’d have Mick Jagger calling me on the phone saying, ‘Oh, Bebe, please come out,’ and I would be like, ‘Oh, please, I’ve gotta go to sleep.’

Mick Jagger was a lightning bolt of strange talent sent from above.

My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can’t be done.