Was Mick Jagger a Stoic?

I've never been a huge fan of the rock band The Rolling Stones.  It's not like I don't enjoy listening to their music.  As a matter of fact, I actually do enjoy listening to a number of their songs, and at one time I owned a couple of their albums.  I suppose I've just always liked other rock bands better.  Regardless, one of my favorite songs by the band is the song "You Can't Always Get What You Want", which appeared on the 1969 album "Let It Bleed".  The song was co-written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and was named as the 100th greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine on its 2004 list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".  

One of the lines in the song is absolutely fantastic (which prompted me to write a blog post about it several years ago):

"You can't always get what you want.  But if you try sometime, you'll find, you get what you need."

Regardless of whether the song is actually addressing major topics of the 1960's (love, politics, and drugs), the title and main line in the chorus perhaps summarizes a major tenet of the Stoic philosophy.  I came across the following passage from the Roman Stoic Seneca today:

"No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don't have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have."

I don't know if Mick Jagger ever read Stoic philosophy, but it's far from impossible.  At one point in time, he was an undergraduate student in finance and accounting at the famous London School of Economics.  Regardless, there is a lot of similarities between the Rolling Stones song lyric and Seneca's passage above.

As Seneca suggests, there is absolutely no way that we can ever have all of the things that we want in life.  Maybe the trick is to want less and enjoy what we do have in life.  Or to paraphrase Mick Jagger, "There's no way that we will ever get everything that we want, but if we try and focus on what we do have, we will find that we have all that we need."