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When 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 Jagger
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Mick Jagger
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 26
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Michael Philip Jagger
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