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I don't believe in original melodies. There are only so many computations of eight notes.

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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They're so boring. They're so pathetic, all those journalists. Most of them are. Most of those kind that write gossip stuff, and most of it's gossip. Things are just invented about your personal life and you just have to take that. It's bullshit. People believe it, though. They just believe everything they read.
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The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.
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