It’s Only Rock and Roll. — Mick Jagger

Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers. — Mick Jagger

You start out playing rock ‘n’ roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock ‘n’ roll and have sex. — Mick Jagger

I don’t know if rock is dying. I wouldn’t want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same. — Mick Jagger

There’s no absolutes in life–only vodka. — Mick Jagger

I don’t think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people. — Mick Jagger

For some people it’s real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself. — Mick Jagger

I don’t want to be a rock star all my life. I couldn’t bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags. — Mick Jagger

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad. — Mick Jagger

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table. — Mick Jagger

I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem. — Mick Jagger

I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people. — Mick Jagger

Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible. — Mick Jagger

Boardwalk empire’s been very successful and Boardwalk empire’s great that a show about music can be that successful and it’s good for everybody. and i think Boardwalk empire’s Boardwalk empire. — Mick Jagger

I really don’t see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I’ve been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film. — Mick Jagger

He stole my music but he gave me my name. — 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 now. — Mick Jagger

I met lee In los angeles durIng oscar week and we had a nIce( tIme), went to a couple partIes, we were sort of jokIng around about the musIc–tv busIness. — 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

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

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 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

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

Of course we’re doing it for the money. We’ve always done it for the money. — Mick Jagger

I’m not the businessman. I don’t deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I’ve run out of money, I have to go and make some more. — Mick Jagger

It’s not selling out, it is called making lots of money. — Mick Jagger

I love America, but I can’t spend the whole year here. I can’t afford the taxes. — Mick Jagger

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. — 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 have a lot of songs, and I’d love to do some more recording with the band. — Mick Jagger

Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself. — Mick Jagger

People have different personalities when they’re drunk or take heroin, or whatever drugs. — Mick Jagger

In England they always try out new mobile phones in Isle of Man. They’ve got a captive society. So I said, you should try the legalization of all drugs on the Isle of Man and see what happens. — Mick Jagger

I don’t like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit–forming bore. It’s about the most boring drug ever invented. — Mick Jagger

I wasn’t understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you. — Mick Jagger

If you’re really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first. — Mick Jagger

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. — Mick Jagger

I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there’s nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don’t produce as good things as you could. — 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

Anyone taking heroin is thinking about taking heroin more than they’re thinking about anything else. That’s the general rule about most drugs. — Mick Jagger

I wasn’t taking so many drugs that it was messing up my creative processes. It was a very good period, 1968–there was a good feeling in the air. It was a very creative period for everyone. — Mick Jagger

It’s hard to believe that you did so many drugs for so long. That’s what I find really hard. And didn’t really consider it. It was eating and drinking and taking drugs and having sex. It was just part of life. — Mick Jagger