In 1979, Dave Marsh wrote that it was the keynote of Beggars Banquet, "with its teasing admonition to do something and its refusal to admit that doing it will make any difference; as usual, the Stones were more correct, if also more faithless, philosophers than any of their peers."
I 1979 skrev Dave Marsh at dette var grundtonen i Beggars Banquet, ” med dens drillende formaning om at gøre noget, og dens nægtelse af at indrømme at forandringen vil gøre en forskel; som sædvanlig er The Stones mere korrekte, hvis ikke mere troløse, filosofiske end alle andre af deres ligemænd”.