Mick Jagger Quotes About Drugs

Quotes about: Drugs

• 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

  Sex, Rocks, Play

  "Late Show with David Letterman (TV Series) Amanda Seyfried/Natalia Makarova/Awolnation". www.imdb.com. 2012.

• 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

  Thinking, Drug, Heroin

• I always think it's better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That's not saying I've never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been - it didn't take me that long to realize that it wasn't a good thing.

  Mick Jagger

  Drinking, Thinking, Long

  "CNN Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. May 18, 2010.

• People have different personalities when they're drunk or take heroin, or whatever drugs.

  Mick Jagger

  People, Drunk, Personality

• 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

  Thinking, Drug, Boring

• 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

  Fashion, Drug, Excess

• Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of marijuana and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been - it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.

  Mick Jagger

  Taken, Marijuana, Years

  Interview with Larry King, edition.cnn.com. May 18, 2010.

• 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

  Thinking, Drug, Trying

• 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

  Men, Phones, Drug

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. May 18, 2010.

• 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

  Thinking, People, Drug

• Taking drugs on a recreation level is one thing. But taking them while you're working on a stage is, I don't think it was that great. It's the control factor. And the thing about being on stage, you really want to feel that you're sort of in control a lot. It's not a place where you want to be out of control.

  Mick Jagger

  Thinking, Drug, Levels

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. May 18, 2010.

• 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

  People, Addiction, Drug

• 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

  Sex, Drinking, Believe

• 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

  Air, Creative, Drug

  "Mick Jagger Remembers". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. December 14, 1995.

• Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.

  Mick Jagger

  Hangover, Drug Use, Terrible

• 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

  People, Drug, Helping

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