Mayer Hawthorne Quotes

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

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.

I went to see 'Shine a Light,' and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch that man do what he does in front of an audience. It's primarily Mick Jagger, but they're all so confident and relaxed and in love with what they do, and aware of the power of what they do. It's just deeply, deeply attractive.

I found Mick Jagger... very bright. I always liked him very much and still do.

Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.

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

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

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

I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.

Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

I remember Robert Plant coming backstage after the first show saying, 'Hey, boys, I should be opening for you.' That felt pretty good.

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

Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.

I didn't even like Mick Jagger.

Joel? He's the rock star! When you see Joel step on stage... he's born to be a rock star.

The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - they were theater artists.

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.'

After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.

If I were a rock star, I'd design my own clothes. I'd do it because that's the mark of a true rock star.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.

If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.

I'm a huge Freddie Mercury fan. I think he was the end-all. I love his lack of inhibition, his talent, the chances he took. He made mistakes on his records, and he didn't care.

My mother thinks Mick Jagger is a foreign car.