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" Even me mum can't tell me what to do. "
Ian Brown
Tell
Mum
Me
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" It is a fact that everyone's got a limited run in music - but who's to say how long that run lasts? I used to think that there would be no way I'd still be in music when I was 40. I used to think anyone who was 40 was an old man, and they probably shouldn't be doing it anymore. "
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Man
" People in Russia learned English off the Beatles. People in Japan learned English off the Stone Roses. Noel Gallagher says music can't change the world, but the Roses made him want to start a group, so it changed his world. "
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" When I was 9, I was into T. Rex, Gary Glitter, and Alice Cooper. I knew The Beatles because my nan introduced me to them, but T. Rex was the first band I got into myself. I got 'Metal Guru' a few months after hearing 'Children of the Revolution' in Pwllheli in North Wales at a market. "
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Children
Me
Myself
" We feel we're the only British group worth exporting since the Sex Pistols, definitely. "
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Only
Group
Worth
" Stardom's transitory. Nothing really changes except people's attitudes. "
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Nothing
People
Stardom
" You'll never find a Manchester band slagging off another Manchester band, but within each Manchester band, people will rip each other apart: Mondays, Smiths, New Order, Roses, Oasis. "
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Roses
People
You
" I wrote a lot of lyrics in prison, but they'd all be like, 'Crawls upon the shoulders, hatred in the eyes.' I wrote about 50 songs in there that were all about jail. I've come out and thought, 'I've only served eight weeks; I can't really write a concept album about jail.' "
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Thought
Eyes
Hatred
" People tend to settle for the fiver rather than going for the pot of gold. "
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Gold
Pot
Settle
" I used to be one of those kids who couldn't keep my mouth shut. "
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Kids
Keep
Who
" My sister bought me the Koran in 1990. I always thought the stories in it were magical. "
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Me
Sister
Always
" I never wanted to be a pop singer, but I always watched pop programs and knew I could do better than the people I was seeing. "
Ian Brown
Never
Seeing
Always
" I've never chatted up a girl in me life. I've always let girls come to me. I've never approached a girl to chat her up. "
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Always
Me
Her
" I don't actually personally get off on guitar music. "
Ian Brown
Get
Personally
Off
" When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time. "
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Roses
Stone
Time
" I was skint, and I had to move back to my mum and dad's house, back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me; it didn't mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken. "
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Father
Brother
People
" We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about. "
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Finish
Out
Started
" I don't like to play anywhere with a banner for Carlsberg or vodka or whatever. I'm not a drinker myself, and I don't like feeling like I'm working for the liquor companies. "
Ian Brown
Myself
Working
Feeling
" Belief outweighs talent. Self-belief's got me everything, self-belief. "
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Everything
Belief
Got
" Honestly, going solo is the second best thing that's ever happened to me after my kids. "
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Me
Second
Solo
" I actually was able to give up shopping in February '99. "
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February
Up
Shopping
" It's a horrible name, Coldplay. It doesn't conjure up any positive thoughts. "
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Positive
Thoughts
Up
" I've not thought about the Stone Roses since we quit. How many LPs do I have to make to stop people talking about it? "
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Thought
Talking
Stone
" I love harmonicas - old blues players like Sonny Boy Williamson. "
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Old
Blues
Love
" Everybody is a star. It's true. And if you've got a light, don't let it go out. 'Cos some people sink under. "
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Light
People
You
" We believe that anyone can do anything, and everyone's a star. And that's evident from the shows we do. It just feels like a whole bunch of people in a room celebrating something - maybe just being alive. "
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People
Alive
Believe
" I'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things. "
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Racism
World
Change
" Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory. "
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Environment
Use
You
" Maybe if you see me begging on the streets, you might find me doing The Stone Roses the next day. "
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You
Stone
Doing
" We should be growing carrots up the side of the Empire State Building or Big Ben. "
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Big
Up
Side