Mick Jagger Quotes

If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones

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• If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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  • Night
  • Bottles