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" I can't think of anyone who's reformed for art's sake. That's why the Roses will never reform. "
Ian Brown
Why
Never
Art
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" With the Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs. "
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" Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church. "
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" Some of the kids who discovered me from my 'F.E.A.R.' record or one of the U.N.K.L.E. tunes have said, 'I don't even like the Roses; I love your solo stuff.' I buzz off that. "
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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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" My biggest fault is that I give people too much credit. Then they let you down. I'm 99.9 per cent perfect - that's how I look at myself and, therefore, everybody else too. "
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" I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties. "
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" Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory. "
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" 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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