Crossfire Hurricane Quotes
Interviewer: [historical footage]Why do you think that most of your work is about dissatisfaction in song. Why do you think you're so popular?
Mick Jagger, Himself: Because, most young people are dissatisfied.
Interviewer: In what way?
Mick Jagger, Himself: With the generation that they think is running their lives.
Interviewer: What things are you dissatisfied with?
Mick Jagger, Himself: The generation that runs our life.
Mick Jagger, Himself: Because, most young people are dissatisfied.
Interviewer: In what way?
Mick Jagger, Himself: With the generation that they think is running their lives.
Interviewer: What things are you dissatisfied with?
Mick Jagger, Himself: The generation that runs our life.
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[first lines]Brett Morgen, Himself: Do you want to do a sound check?
Mick Jagger, Himself: Yeah. One-two. One-two. One-two. - - One-two. One-two. One-two. Hello-hello-hello. Hello-hello.
Brett Morgen, Himself: Okay. I think we're good. So, before we start, I just want to ask you, how's your memory?
Mick Jagger, Himself: Yeah. One-two. One-two. One-two. - - One-two. One-two. One-two. Hello-hello-hello. Hello-hello.
Brett Morgen, Himself: Okay. I think we're good. So, before we start, I just want to ask you, how's your memory?
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Keith Richards, Himself: I'm amazed by it, myself. It's - [laughs]
Keith Richards, Himself: It's almost a fairy story, you know.
Keith Richards, Himself: It's almost a fairy story, you know.
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Dick Cavett, Himself: [the Dick Cavett Show - July 25, 1972]I went to Madison Square Garden to meet Mick Jagger, the singer with the group. A fascinating man. And he's been described variously as the supreme sexual object in modern western culture, the compound of menace and energy, a sadomasochistic freak and a pussy cat and various other things.
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Dick Cavett, Himself: [the Dick Cavett Show - July 25, 1972]Say, I don't know if I'm supposed to see this, but, there was a plate of something going around here. People offering little pills.
Mick Jagger, Himself: Vitamins and salt.
Dick Cavett, Himself: Vitamins and salt pills.
Mick Jagger, Himself: A, E, C, and salt. Drink the salt with plenty of water.
Mick Jagger, Himself: Vitamins and salt.
Dick Cavett, Himself: Vitamins and salt pills.
Mick Jagger, Himself: A, E, C, and salt. Drink the salt with plenty of water.
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Keith Richards, Himself: I think between Mick, Brian and me, we had a feeling that the idea to put a band together that was a little less show business was exactly at the right time. The show biz angle was just boring to us.
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Keith Richards, Himself: Of course, you have to talk about Andrew Oldham, who'd been working for Brian Epstein, with the Beatles. He went around London and he heard we were kicking up a storm in some clubs. He took a look around and he said, Hey, there can't be just one band in England.
Mick Jagger, Himself: Andrew wanted to make the Rolling Stones the anti-Beatles. So, you got heroes, you got an anti-hero. Like in a movie, you got good guys and bad guys. Andrew decided that the Rolling Stones were the bad guys. It wasn't just an accident. He thought the Rolling Stones would suit that image. It helps to have people that go along with it or would fit the bill. It's good to have an actor to play the part.
Mick Jagger, Himself: Andrew wanted to make the Rolling Stones the anti-Beatles. So, you got heroes, you got an anti-hero. Like in a movie, you got good guys and bad guys. Andrew decided that the Rolling Stones were the bad guys. It wasn't just an accident. He thought the Rolling Stones would suit that image. It helps to have people that go along with it or would fit the bill. It's good to have an actor to play the part.
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Keith Richards, Himself: It started, man, on the first tour. Half way through it, things started to get crazy.
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Mick Jagger, Himself: You see, you're thrust into the limelight in a youth oriented thing. It's not about growing up. It's about *not* growing up, in a way. Then, it's about bad behavior. Then, you're about bad behavior. So, then, you start behaving badly.
Keith Richards, Himself: It's a weirdly situation. I mean, if you - If you did something wrong, even better. And the Beatles got the white hat. [laughs]
Keith Richards, Himself: What's left? The black hat.
Keith Richards, Himself: It's a weirdly situation. I mean, if you - If you did something wrong, even better. And the Beatles got the white hat. [laughs]
Keith Richards, Himself: What's left? The black hat.
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Mick Jagger, Himself: As a singer and doing a performance, you gotta be very finely in tuned to what's going on in the audience. Little Richard literally taught me this stuff. I watched how he harangued the crowd almost. He would tease them. Everybody stand up. I said, stand up! You know and they would. He was outrageous. It kept it all alive, you know, and you never quite knew what was going to happen.
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Mick Jagger, Himself: In those days, we only played covers. The first album was all covers. I remember having this discussion, well, what are we going to do. We can't make a second album of covers. We already knew we'd come to the wall there.
Keith Richards, Himself: Andrew Oldham said if we wanted to keep going, you've got to, really, we need new material. Well, this was something I couldn't have conceived of.
Keith Richards, Himself: Andrew Oldham said if we wanted to keep going, you've got to, really, we need new material. Well, this was something I couldn't have conceived of.
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Keith Richards, Himself: Suddenly, you know, just playing guitar and playing blues, suddenly, it wasn't enough, you know. Now I wanted to *invent* things for me to play.
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Mick Jagger, Himself: We start in experimenting with writing. Well, maybe we weren't very good at it. But, we would try. You know, maybe not everybody can write.
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Keith Richards, Himself: We went on to write a whole lot of crap. And we didn't dare for months and months and months to write a song for the Stones, you know. Oh, God, that's a whole other trip.
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Mick Jagger, Himself: The first song I remember writing in the Rolling Stones was, Tell Me. Which is a tiny, minor, mini-hit. You know, which was very gratifying, because, we'd only done these cover songs.
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Mick Jagger, Himself: Every little moment we had of hanging around, Keith and I used to be sitting with guitars, trying to write songs. We wrote songs all the time. We were constantly coming up with ideas. We started writing songs that were reflective of the time we where living in and that struck a chord with our audience.
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Mick Jagger, Himself: You're connecting and you're getting a lot of feedback. I mean, you're feeling what the audience is feeling. So, your exchanging with the audience a kind of ideas stream.
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Mick Jagger, Himself: It felt like an explosive mount. People felt this sensation that something was going that had never happened before - that they'd been waiting to happen.
Keith Richards, Himself: And that was at that same time in London that all kinds of shit was hitting the fan and, of course, we joined in.
Keith Richards, Himself: And that was at that same time in London that all kinds of shit was hitting the fan and, of course, we joined in.
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Brian Jones, Himself: [historic footage]After the success, its a first class ticket, you know, to a lot of - things.
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Mick Jagger, Himself: We all smoked dope. I mean, except for Bill. But, it was pretty innocent stuff and then you got more and more different drugs coming in: LSD and cocaine, heroin.
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Keith Richards, Himself: [Reflecting on the impact of his first arrest for illegal drug use in 1967]It cemented our relationships with our generation, with the public. And it sort of gave us a badge of honor, in a way, you know. To me, it just made me like, okay now, now you know who I am. Basically, givin' me a license. You know, it was Jesse James time. I mean, the cops turned me into a criminal. You know, that's when I started to carry a shooter in America.
Brett Morgen, Himself: So, the outlaw was born.
Keith Richards, Himself: Yeah. Yeah, it was fully blown. That was when we really put the black hat on. You know, before that it was just sort of off-grey. [laughs]
Mick Jagger, Himself: [historical footage - singing]I was born in a cross-fire hurricane; And I howled at the morning driving rain; But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas; But it's all right. I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash; It's a gas, gas, gas...
Brett Morgen, Himself: So, the outlaw was born.
Keith Richards, Himself: Yeah. Yeah, it was fully blown. That was when we really put the black hat on. You know, before that it was just sort of off-grey. [laughs]
Mick Jagger, Himself: [historical footage - singing]I was born in a cross-fire hurricane; And I howled at the morning driving rain; But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas; But it's all right. I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash; It's a gas, gas, gas...
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Keith Richards, Himself: Well, in a way, I kind of felt that everybody else was writin' a script for me. You're going to do what I can't. Okay. And that is a very easy role to slip into. And there's a slot available and it was just built for me. [laughs]
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Mick Jagger, Himself: The Jumpin' Jack Flash character is more: been through the mill and come out the other side smiling. The Sympathy character is much more complicated; because, my inspiration for that came from Baudelaire and The Master and Margarita. So, I had all these things going on. It was very much of the time and everything. I mean, its got the violence of the time in it. It's provocative.
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Mick Jagger, Himself: The violence was all pervasive. And you can't help but live in it and reflect it back again. And then, of course, it goes into a feedback loop.
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Keith Richards, Himself: I mean, in a way, the Rolling Stones overtake you. And it's almost like you're sort of levitating. You don't even want to touch the strings cause they're doing it themselves. And, any way, they'd be too hot.
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Mick Jagger, Himself: Keith and I took drugs... But, Brian took too many drugs of the wrong kind and he wasn't functioning as a musician. I don't think he was that interested in contributing to the Rolling Stones anymore.
Keith Richards, Himself: We didn't even expect him to be there. If he turned up, we'd find something for him to do. I'd ask him, You got anything? You know, What do you think about this? Want to put something over this? Or, but, eh, by then he was already in Bye-Bye Land.
Keith Richards, Himself: We didn't even expect him to be there. If he turned up, we'd find something for him to do. I'd ask him, You got anything? You know, What do you think about this? Want to put something over this? Or, but, eh, by then he was already in Bye-Bye Land.
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Mick Jagger, Himself: You certainly didn't know if he was going to turn up and what state he was going to be in and then, what he was going to be able to do in that state. What job could you give him. And then, one time, when we sat around, on the floor, we played, in a circle, playing No Expectations. And he picked the guitar and played a very pretty lines on it which you can hear on the record. And that was the last thing I remember him doing that was Brian. Or, the Brian that could contribute something very pretty and sensitive and it made the record sound wonderful.
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Brian Jones, Himself: [historical footage]My ultimate aim in life is that to be a pop star. I enjoy it, with reservations. But, I'm not really sort of satisfied, either artistically or personally.
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Brian Jones, Himself: [historical footage]Let's face it, the future as a Rolling Stone is very uncertain.
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Keith Richards, Himself: We were workin', in the studio, don't you remember?
Mick Jagger, Himself: And someone came in and said Brian's just died.
Keith Richards, Himself: Everybody just looked at each other and go, Finally. It was almost like it was bound to happen, one way or another.
Mick Jagger, Himself: It was a horrible moment. And I don't know how many months later, that was, when we went down to see him.
Brett Morgen, Himself: He died - three weeks later.
Keith Richards, Himself: Fuck.
Mick Jagger, Himself: And someone came in and said Brian's just died.
Keith Richards, Himself: Everybody just looked at each other and go, Finally. It was almost like it was bound to happen, one way or another.
Mick Jagger, Himself: It was a horrible moment. And I don't know how many months later, that was, when we went down to see him.
Brett Morgen, Himself: He died - three weeks later.
Keith Richards, Himself: Fuck.
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