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" 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. "
Ian Brown
Light
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You
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" Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection. "
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" 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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" I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are. "
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" We feel we're the only British group worth exporting since the Sex Pistols, definitely. "
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" They've had a hard life, the Oasis brothers. They've done really well to be semi-normal. It's always sad when your dirty linen is brought out in public. "
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" Hell is being stuck in a lift with Elton John and the Queen Mother. "
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" 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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" I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less. "
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" I used to be one of those kids who couldn't keep my mouth shut. "
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" I love karaoke - I usually do Blondie's 'Heart Of Glass,' or 'Try A Little Tenderness.' "
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