Mick Jagger Quotes

Music, at its very best, is dangerous.

As professional actors, it's our job to entertain our audiences while setting benchmarks for ourselves as well, creatively and intellectually.

I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.

Music and acting are the same thing: you must understand that art is only the search, not the final form.

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic. You first have to cut yourself up the middle. Then you have to rip out every single organ, every single part and lay them on a table. You then need to examine the parts, and the reality of the situation hits you. Then you pop it all back in, sew yourself shut and perform.

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.

It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I'm about.

If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.

Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.

Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing.

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It's extraordinarily satisfying.

My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.

Being onstage is a way of harnessing your vulnerability and using the adrenaline to be creative. It's a very vulnerable place to be - technically, emotionally, and physically - but I love it.

Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Then what I decided is I am a spokesman for this other imagination of community - not the one showing up in the market. Nobody was tending to the way we're imaginatively connected to each other.

Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.