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Quotes About Mick

Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.
~ Don Henley
It really comes down to Mick. He's the one who was constantly trying to get these five people in one room together. This is his love, his baby. It's his band, and there's nothing more he loves to do than get up on stage and play with us.
~ Christine McVie
I like those really multidimensional characters like Dean Ambrose and Bray Wyatt.
~ Mick Foley
will always ride hard for Mick's Paul phase, summed up by the compilation Through the Past, Darkly, with its awesomely ridiculous octagonal cover.
~ Rob Sheffield
The party never stopped at Mick's place. He categorized three phases of a good drug binge: ascending, transcending, disintegration.
~ Rob Sheffield
Bed-sheet creases print a river delta on Mick's back and in his restlessness it strikes him that civilisation and its history are similarly bagatelles, deluded into thinking that their progress has the ordered logic of a chess match when it's more the random ping of Tiddlywinks.
~ Alan Moore
He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.
~ Saffron Burrows
I have great memories of my time at Manchester Poly. I still enjoy DJing from time to time.
~ Mick Hucknall
He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.
~ Saffron Burrows
Our Mayor looks like a lesser Mayor Daley: smokes cigars, wears loud plaid suits, the penultimate used car salesman. He's been in since '64, a Mick with a machine. He's been re-elected because he's a consistent evil and, here in Elizabeth, we appreciate consistency.
~ Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Blood and guts everywhere. Who would have thought one old woman could make so much mess? Mick tippy-toed through the gore, planning each step to avoid getting any on his Docs. Christ, he'd just polished them a couple of hours ago. What if he slipped and ended up back in hospital? Some people had no consideration for others, sure enough.
~ John West
Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.
~ Ronnie Wood
JOHN'S ALWAYS going to the beach. Mick's always going to the Renaissance Faire, Lindsey's always going to visit his tailor, I'm always going to a Halloween party, and Christine is like Christine always looks in her kind of cool clothes," Stevie giggles at the absurdity of this multi-platinum unit.
~ Sean Egan
My reputation is as a fiscal hawk. At least, I hope that it is.
~ Mick Mulvaney
I am very friendly with lots of people in rock'n'roll, because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick's work.
~ Jerry Hall
Mick's album was called She's the Boss, which said it all. I've never listened to the entire thing all the way through. Who has? It's like Mein Kampf. Everybody had a copy, but nobody listened to it.
~ Keith Richards
Spiderwoman stepped forward and said, "Oh, do give us a hint, just give us a glimmer." Mick turned to me and said, "We're the Glimmer Twins." Baptized on the equator, the Glimmer Twins is the name we used later for ourselves as producers of our own records.
~ Keith Richards
San Antonio on June 3. This was the tour of the giant inflatable cock. It came rising up from the stage as Mick sang "Starfucker." It was great was the cock, though we paid for it later in Mick's wanting props at every tour after that, to cover his insecurities.
~ Keith Richards
We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him.
~ Martin Scorsese
I'm not a country picker, really - I like a nice, beefy, raunchy sort of sound.
~ Mick Ralphs
The way I'm distorted and intentionally misquoted has been going on since 1985.
~ Mick Hucknall
It's enough of a strain killing people. I've no time for deer. --Mick Ballou
~ Lawrence Block
Lloyd George's main interest seemed to lie in meeting the amazing escapologist 'Mick' as he always referred to him. He took a mischievous delight in the rage of 'the Castle contingent' at their inability to lay hands on Collins when the Archbishop could apparently see him at will.
~ Tim Pat Coogan
Encountering Mick playing with a Slinky was a sight as shocking as seeing his dying uncle.
~ Chris Offutt