(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
“It captures a spirit of the times, which was alienation. Or it’s a bit more than that, maybe, but a kind of sexual alienation. Alienation’s not quite the right word, but it’s one word that would do.”Mick Jagger (553)
“It’s not about sex at all. People are never bright enough to see where songs really are dirty. When the chap says: ‘I can’t get no satisfaction’ he just means he’s fed up. I am a cynical person because I don’t see any kind of end to anything. If you want satisfaction, there’s got to be an end. Some people say ‘Now I’ve got the house and the three children and this is the end.’ But nobody’s existence is really going towards an end, is it? Maybe my satisfaction is not being satisfied; because if I was, there would be no satisfaction for me.”Mick Jagger (816)
Sympathy For The Devil
“I think that was taken from an old idea of Baudelaire’s, I think, but I could be wrong. But it was an idea I got from French writing. And I just took a couple of lines and expanded on it. There’s all these attractions of opposites and turning things upside down. It’s a very long historical figure – the figures of evil and the figures of good – so it a tremendously long trail he’s made as personified in this piece. My whole thing of this song was not black magic. It was different than that. We had played around with that imagery before – which is Satanic Majesties – but it wasn’t really put into words.”Mick Jagger (553)
Rain Fall Down
“Is a song about London. It has a line, “Feel like we’re living in a battleground/Everyone’s jazzed.” That was in my head already. There were so many armed police in the streets. Walking around, seeing machine guns, is not how you imagine London to be. If we keep going down this track, we’re not going to get back.”Mick Jagger (555)
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