Mick Jagger: Self (segment "It's All Pop Music")
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Himself (segment "It's All Pop Music") : [Mick Jagger] Well, It seems strange to say because if I say the violence of it, which is one part, which if you ask most young people they'd say they don't like the violence; they don't like the war or they don't like that. They, themselves, are violent. which doesn't seem to make sense.
interviewer : No, it seems you're encouraging them.
Himself (segment "It's All Pop Music") : But it's, I suppose, I don't think, I don't think you have to be violent to overcome it. But some people do and when they're violent against the police, it's just their way, the only way, they have of showing it. Because they're not organised.
interviewer : How would you organise them?
Himself (segment "It's All Pop Music") : I wouldn't want to organise them. I don't feel I'm a leader of them, whoever we're talking about.
Himself (segment "It's All Pop Music") : If you're a realist and if you see the world as you think it is, as it really is, you try and see it as it really is, you can be just as angry and write from anger. But I don't think "Oh, I'm screwed up, I must write a song about that". It doesn't happen like that.
Himself (segment "It's All Pop Music") : It's just a luck of people liking what you do. It's not a secret of anything. It's just doing the best you can and putting everything you've got into it and hoping people will like it. There's no real secret to that. Either people do like it or they don't. As long as people know about. They have to know that you exist which is a very important part, if you're somebody new, starting out in pop music. Everyone has to know you exist and once they know you exist and they hear what you have to offer either they like you or they don't. And if they don't like you which happened to us in America when we, people knew about us, but they didn't like us, they didn't buy our records until "Satisfaction" which was a really big record.
Himself (segment "It's All Pop Music") : Well because I just feel part of the thing that started off, I suppose. Because and I feel part of the people that, I won't, this isn't the first generation that's questioned the moral values of the last generation but I think it's one of the first generations which has not had to worry about the material things, 'cos if you're hungry you haven't really got much time to worry about morals. When I say morals, I mean like fighting wars, and whether this is right or that is right for this society to do that, If you're hungry and if your stomach is full of food you can start worrying about them. And this is what's happened. There's people who will worry and worry more and have less and less work to do as the years go on, they won't have hardly any work to do because there will be machines to do it for them, which has already happened. And so they will have to work, like four hours a day, and the rest of the time they're going to have to do something else.
interviewer : What is that something else?
Himself (segment "It's All Pop Music") : That something else isn't going to be what people think. It isn't going to be just jumping around and swimming and just reading books and going to movies because they're very, you get very bored with those things, very quickly.
interviewer : What's it going to be?
Himself (segment "It's All Pop Music") : Well, we don't know, that's the problem. I hope it's going to be something good. I don't know.
