Mick Jagger: Self
Quotes
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[first lines]
Annoncer : Ladies and gentlemen, on the first night of their American tour, will you please welcome: The Rolling Stones!
Mick Jagger, Himself : Hey, hey, hey! How you doin'? Alright? Oh, yeah. Yeah! Come on! Yeah!
[singing]
Mick Jagger, Himself : Start me up, Start me up, I'll never stop...
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Mick Jagger, Himself : Tonight, we're going to do something we've never done before, which is, play a whole - we used to make these records and they went round and round and round - and you - there was a cover - there was a sort of cardboard cover that people stared at for ages, reading, reading inferences into the music that had nothing to do with anything. Anyway, we're gonna - we're gonna do the whole of: Sticky Fingers. But, in the order of the 8-track tape. - - Nice. Listen, a lot of this is a joke, so don't be too literal. This first one we're going to do is: Sway. Okay.
[singing]
Mick Jagger, Himself : Did you ever wake up to find, Someone that broke up your mind, Destroyed your notions of circular time, It's just that demon life that got you in its sway, It's just that demon life that got you in its sway...
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Mick Jagger, Himself : [backstage] Sticky Fingers was one of those albums that spread around, you know, different continents, different, slightly different times. So, it doesn't have that, alright, we were in the studio for two years making Sticky Fingers.
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Mick Jagger, Himself : [backstage] The cover is a picture of a guy's denim jeans. Just this part here and here.
[pointing to his crotch area]
Mick Jagger, Himself : And, Andy Warhol designed it and it has a, originally, on the vinyl, original vinyl, had a - a zipper on it.
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Mick Jagger, Himself : [backstage] No one really knows whose crotch is depicted in the Andy picture.
[laughs]
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Mick Jagger, Himself : We're gonna continue with a slightly country-ish feel. Yeah, so this one we recorded in Muscle Shoals. Which is, I suppose, that's in the country.
[singing]
Mick Jagger, Himself : Childhood living is easy to do...
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Mick Jagger, Himself : I should have warned you before; but, there may be a lot of sort of 60s drug references in this record. That could puzzle some people and, you know...
Audience Member : Not us!
Mick Jagger, Himself : It was a very groovy scene though. It's coming back a bit 'round here, I think.
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Mick Jagger, Himself : [backstage] I guess its the ten best songs you had - you stuck them on, you know, we stick them on the - in the studio mixing room; which I think is somewhere in LA. And, and we stuck them all on the board and we said, "Ah, that's good. We've got to have that one. We've got to have that one. And we've got to have that one." And I don't know how much real thought went into looking at it as a whole. I'm sure we played it all through and said, "Ah, it's amazing. We're so great." But, then never played it again. And then, who knows? I mean its strange when you think about it. Because, we did have a lot of other songs. If I'm looking at it now, I'd say, "Why would you put 'Sister Morphine" on it? You've got enough *down* songs." Why would we put such a downer song on there? You got all these ballads, like 'Wild Horses,' 'I Got the Blues.' It's enough!
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Keith Richards, Himself : [backstage] Yeah, that song, great horn parts. Anyway, Jim Price and Bobby - their best. A good rocker.
Mick Jagger, Himself : [onstage - singing "Bitch"] I'm never so tired, I can't understand it, Just had a fortnight's sleep, I'm feeling so stoned, I'm so distracted, Ain't touched a thing all week, Yeah, I'm feeling drunk, juiced up and sloppy, Ain't touched a thing all night, I'm feeling hungry, Can't see the reason, Just eat a horse meat pie, Yeah, Yeah, That's a Bitch, Come on! Yeah when you call my name, I salivate like a Pavlov dog...
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Mick Jagger, Himself : [backstage] I think that's a good moment for the Stones, to be, like, going into something that they're not really - is not really their territory. But, I, will go anyway, you know. It's - it's - it's kind of quite brave, really, to do that. I like the Rolling Stones when they try things that they - not really them and then it comes off, you know. Even if it doesn't come off, it's good marks for trying.
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Mick Jagger, Himself : [singing] And I've got the blues, You know I've got the blues for you, And I've got the blues, I've got the blues for you, Yeah, that's what I'm singing about, baby, Yeah, that's what I'm talkin' about, baby, That's what I'm singing about, I'm singing this song, singing this song, singing this song for you.
[audience applause]
Mick Jagger, Himself : Thank you very much. Thank you, kindly.
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Mick Jagger, Himself : How's it going so far? Is it - alright? Blimey, next year we'll come back and do the whole of "Satanic Majesties." Alright? Okay, this one is called "Moonlight Mile."
[singing]
Mick Jagger, Himself : When the wind blows and the rain feels cold, With a head full of snow, With a head full of snow, In the window there's a face you know, Don't the night pass slow, Don't the night pass slow, The sound of strangers sending nothing to my mind, Just another mad mad day on the road, I am just living to be lying by your side, I'm just about a moonlight mile on down the road...
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Mick Jagger, Himself : [backstage] "Brown Sugar" - yeah. It reminds me, I was sitting in a field in Australia, with a pair of headphones on, plugged into my electric guitar, and writin' this tune while I was shootin' a movie.
[laughs]
Mick Jagger, Himself : Yeah, very alone in the outback. Of course, not that alone - with the 200 crew.
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Mick Jagger, Himself : [backstage] If I had to take one song, I suppose it'd be "Brown Sugar." If I was taking it away with me and I couldn't take any others. 'Cause, I don't know, its the most successful and it's, like, close to my heart.
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Keith Richards, Himself : [backstage] It would work in all kinds of - no matter how you felt, if you were alone on a desert island, for instance. Other one's might take you really down, you know.
[laughs]
Keith Richards, Himself : "Sister Morphine" - can you imagine?
Mick Jagger, Himself : [onstage] One more from the album!
[singing]
Mick Jagger, Himself : Yeah, Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields, Sold in the market down in New Orleans, Scarred old slaver knows he's doin' all right, You should have heard him just around midnight, Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good, Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should, Woo! Drums beatin' cold, English blood runs hot...
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Mick Jagger, Himself : [singing] We say, yeah, yeah, yeah...
Audience : Woo!
Mick Jagger, Himself : How come it taste so good? We say, yeah, yeah, yeah...
Audience : Woo!
Mick Jagger, Himself : Just like a young gal should. Yeah, yeah, yeah...
Audience : Woo!
Mick Jagger, Himself : That's right! Take it home! Take it home!
