Creativity Quote by Ron Wood

Ron Wood is doing a neat bit of image triage here: he’s rescuing Mick Jagger from his own legend. “Clever businessman” is the public caricature - the calculating frontman as corporate CEO, the Rolling Stones as a brand with a touring arm. Wood doesn’t deny it. He concedes that side outright, which makes the pivot feel earned rather than defensive. Then he swings the camera back to the rehearsal room: “The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!”

That phrase “wrong impression” hints at a mild grievance with the way fame flattens people into single-use stories. Jagger, especially, gets filed under ambition, money, strategy. Wood’s subtext is loyalty, but it’s also boundary-setting: don’t mistake professionalism for inauthenticity. In rock culture, “businessman” can read as “sellout,” and Wood is quietly refusing that moral binary. You can be disciplined, organized, even shrewd - and still have the itch, the appetite, the sweat-and-volume compulsion that made the band matter.

“Same as the rest of us” is classic bandmate rhetoric: it reasserts equality inside a famously unequal spotlight. It’s also a reminder that rock’s most enduring figures survive by being two things at once - myth and worker. Wood’s intent isn’t to sanctify Jagger; it’s to keep the story human enough that the music still feels like it came from somewhere real.