Quote Origin: I’d Rather Be Dead than Sing ‘Satisfaction’ When I’m 45

Mick Jagger? Ian Whitcomb? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: The Rolling Stones’ song “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” is one of their most popular tunes. The Hackney Diamonds Tour of the band ended in July 2024, and shortly afterwards Jagger became eighty years old. When he was much younger he supposedly said something like this: …