You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.
Mick JaggerThe only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
Mick JaggerWhen you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.
Mick JaggerSamba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.
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