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Mick Jagger Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.”
— Mick Jagger, The Rock And Roll Book Of The Dead
Tagged: Letting Go, Self-Acceptance, lost, found
“Pop concerts are just gathering of people who want to have a good time and I don’t think they really have a higher meaning.”
— Mick Jagger, Mick Jagger: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: Rock Concerts, Good Time, Higher Meaning
“‘Gimme Shelter’ was very much influenced by the violence in the US and the general uncertainty politically and so on.”
— Mick Jagger, Mick Jagger talks childhood, joining the Stones, being jailed for drugs, writing, and coming to Croke Park- Independent.ie
Tagged: 1969, Gimme Shelter, rolling stones, 1960s, Violenve
“In the year 2000, no one will be arrested for drugs and that sort of thing.”
— Mick Jagger, Mick Jagger- London Evening Standard, December 1967
Tagged: Predictions, year 2000, War on Drugs
“If any moral responsibility exists at all for the artist, it is to turn everybody on to what he thinks and what he’s doing.”
— Mick Jagger, Mick Jagger- London Evening Standard, December 1967
Tagged: Artists, moral responsibility
“I think dwelling on the past for longer than a few months is really dull.”
— Mick Jagger, Mick Jagger | The Talks
Tagged: The Past, Looking Back, dull
“You know when you're onstage you're not really keeping it all inside. You are mostly showing it out. And that's what I do for a living.”
— Mick Jagger, Mick Jagger talks childhood, joining the Stones, being jailed for drugs, writing, and coming to Croke Park- Independent.ie
Tagged: Life Performance, Ego
“When you go out in front of all those people you get an enormous rush of chemicals in your body — your own chemicals, not chemicals you’ve put in.”
— Mick Jagger, Mick Jagger Talks New Rolling Stones Tour, Aretha Franklin and Grammys
Tagged: Performing, Chemicals, Rush
“Once you get in trouble with the police, you’re always in trouble and that’s it.”
— Mick Jagger, Mick Jagger: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: Police, trouble
“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, you know. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.”
— Mick Jagger, Mick Jagger talks childhood, joining the Stones, being jailed for drugs, writing, and coming to Croke Park- Independent.ie
Tagged: 1969, Fans, Frozen in Time
“I don't listen to Rolling Stones albums.”
— Mick Jagger, Mick Jagger | The Talks
Tagged: Irony, rolling stones
“It was a very moody piece about the world closing in on you a bit. When it was recorded, early '69 or something, it was a time of war and tension, so that's reflected in this tune. It's still wheeled out when big storms happen, as they did the other week. It's been used a lot to evoke natural disaster.”
— Mick Jagger, Mick Jagger On The Apocalyptic 'Gimme Shelter'
Tagged: Gimme Shelter, Moody, 1969, War, tension, Natural Disaster
“When I was about 14 or something. I used to sit in with rock bands. I wouldn't tell my parents what I was doing but I would go and sit in with these naff rock bands and do a couple of numbers and then go off and see how it went. It was like fun. So I did that. I could see I got a good reaction. I don't think I really knew anything of what I was doing.”
— Mick Jagger, Mick Jagger talks childhood, joining the Stones, being jailed for drugs, writing, and coming to Croke Park- Independent.ie
Tagged: Naff, Rock Bands
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