"You Can't Always Get What You Want" is a song by the Rolling Stones on their 1969 album Let It Bleed. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it was named as the 100th greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in its 2004 list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
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“You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes
You just might find
You get what you need.”
—Mick Jagger (b. 1943)
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