Gimme Shelter (1970)
Mick Jagger: Self
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Quotes
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Mick Jagger : Who's fighting and what for? Why are we fighting? Why are we fighting? We don't want to fight. Come on!
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Female Reporter : Are you any more satisfied now, as far as your career goes?
Mick Jagger : Do you mean, do you mean sexually or philosophically?
Female Reporter : Both.
Mick Jagger : Yeah, we are more satisfied now, sexually,
Female Reporter : How about philosophically and financially?
Mick Jagger : Financially - dissatisfied. You know, sexually - satisfied. Philosophically - trying.
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Mick Jagger : [after watching Tina Turner performing the opening of the concert] Good. It's nice to have a chick occasionally.
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Mick Jagger : Oh, babies. There's so many of you. Just be cool down in front and don't push around. Just keep still. Keep it together. Oh, yeah.
[singing]
Mick Jagger : Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste, I've been around for a long, long year, Stole many a man's soul to waste, And I was 'round when Jesus Christ, Had his moment of doubt and pain.
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Mick Jagger : I cannot see what's going on. I just know that every time we get to a number, something happens. I don't know what's going on. Who's doing what? It's just a scuffle. All I can ask you, San Francisco, is like the whole thing, like, this could be the most beautiful evening we've had for this winter. You know and we've really - Why, don't, let's - get up man - let's get it together! I can't do any more than just ask you. To beg you - just to keep it together. You can do it! It's wihin your power. Everyone. Everyone. Hell's Angels. Everybody. Let's just keep ourselves together. You know, if we, if we are all one - let's show we're all one!
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David Maysles : [looking at tape recording of the stabbing] Could you see what's happening there?
Mick Jagger : No, you couldn't see anything. Where - it was another scuffle.
David Maysles : There's the Angel right there with the knife.
Mick Jagger : Where's the gun?
David Maysles : I'll roll it back. You'll see it against the girl's crocheted dress.
Mick Jagger : Oh, it's there, isn't it. Wow. It's so horrible.
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Male Reporter : Do you have any special feelings about this kind of a concert - this spontaneous free...
Mick Jagger : Well, it's not, so much, I don't think, the concert, the concert's just sort of, I think the concert's an excuse. You know, because, like, the thing is, it's just like everyone coming and having a good time and the concert's not actually like the proscenium of the theatre, it's like an excuse for everyone to sort of, you know, get together and, like, talk to each other and sleep with each other and ball each other and get very stoned and just have a nice night out and good day, you know. I mean, you know, do you understand? It's not just like getting out there and seein' the Grateful Airplane and the, sort of, Rolling, Rolling, - Rolling Dead.
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Mick Jagger : [fight breaks out in front of the stage] Hey! Hey, Keith! Keith! Keith. Keith, will you cool it and I'll try and stop it.
[band stops playing]
Mick Jagger : Hey, people. Sisters. Brothers and sisters. Brothers and sisters. Come on, now. That means everybody just cool out! Will you cool out, everybody. I know. Everybody, be cool now. Come on. Alright? How are we doing over there? Alright? Can we still make it down the front? Is there anyone there that's hurt, huh? Everyone alright? Okay? Alright. I think we are cool. We can go. We always havin' something very funny happens when we start that number.
[singing]
Mick Jagger : Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste...
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Mick Jagger : Every other scene has been cool.
Keith Richards : Look, cat! That guy, there, if he doesn't stop it, man. Listen, either those cats cool it, man, or we don't play.
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Mick Jagger : [last lines - sung] Rape! Murder! It's just a shot away, It's just a shot away! Rape! Murder! It's just a shot away, It's just a shot away, yeah. Sister, it's just a kiss away, It's just a kiss away, It's just a kiss away, It's just a kiss away, It's just a kiss away, Kiss away, Kiss away, yeah!
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MSG Announcer : [Opening lines] Everybody seems to be ready. Are you ready? The first time in three years, the greatest rock-n-roll band in world: The Rolling Stones! The Rolling Stones.
Mick Jagger : We gonna have a look at ya. We're gonna see how beautiful you are! Woo! Alright. Oh, New York City, you talk a lot. Let's have a look at ya. Let's have a look at New York City. Woo! Well, alright! Welcome to the breakfast show!
[singing]
Mick Jagger : I was born in cross-fire hurricane, And I howled with my morning driving rain, But it's all right, yeah it's alright, In fact, it's a gas...
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Male Reporter : I read in one of the papers that you'll be giving a free concert in San Francisco?
Mick Jagger : We are doing a free concert in San Francisco.
Male Reporter : When?
Mick Jagger : On December sixth. And the location is not Golden Gate Park, unfortunately, but, its somewhere adjacent to it - which is a bit larger. It's creating a sort of microcosmic society. You know, which it sets an example to the rest of America as to how one can behave in nice gatherings.
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Mick Jagger : [singing] I can't get no! No-no-no! Well. - - I ain't gonna give you no, I ain't gonna give you no bull shit, And I don't give you no lie, I ain't gonna give you no bull shit, I ain't gonna give you no lie, But, I need a good woman, babe, Won't you keep me satisfied, And I need a good woman, To keep me satisfied, I need a good woman, To keep me satisfied, I need a good woman, To keep me satisfied, I need a good woman, To keep me satisfied, When I get home in the mornin', I want, I say honey, I want some satisfaction from you, babe, I want some satisfaction from you, babe, I want some satisfaction from you, I want some satisfaction from you, babe, And I'm gonna, I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna get it, I believe I'm gonna get it, I believe I'm gonna get it, I believe I'm gonna get it, Woo!
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Stefan Ponek : KSAN Radio here. The violence at Altamont was completely unexpected. The Rolling Stones had performed for overflow audiences, without incident, in major cities across the United States.
Mick Jagger : [cut to Madison Square Garden - in concert] Okay, baby.
[singing]
Mick Jagger : I can't get no satisfaction...
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Mick Jagger : Well, alright!
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Mick Jagger : Well, alright!
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Mick Jagger : Well, alright!
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Mick Jagger : Well, alright!
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Mick Jagger : Woo! Woo!
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Mick Jagger : We're gonna do a slow blues for you now, people.
[singing]
Mick Jagger : Well I followed her to the station, With a suitcase in my hand, Yeah, and I followed her to the station, With a suitcase in my hand, You know it's hard to tell, it's hard to tell, When all your love's in vain, Cry on baby...
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Mick Jagger : Far out! Sorry you had to wait.
[singing]
Mick Jagger : I met a gin-soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis, She tried to take me upstairs for a ride, She had to heave me right across her shoulder, Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind...
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Mick Jagger : Thank you, kindly. I think I busted a button on my trousers. I hope they don't fall down. It's that jumpin' around, man... You don't want my trousers to fall down now, do you?
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Mick Jagger : [singing] Say, it's alright. Hey, say it's alright. Now, I pray that it's alright. I pray that it's alright. I pray that it's alright. It's alright.
[another fight breaks out in front of the stage and band stops playing]
Keith Richards : Hey, now look, we're splitting. You know, if those cats can't, if you people, we're splitting, man, if those cats don't stop beatin' everybody up in sight. I want them out of the way, man.
