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" I love harmonicas - old blues players like Sonny Boy Williamson. "
Ian Brown
Old
Blues
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" I'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things. "
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" We're all anti-royalist, anti-patriarch. Cos it's 1989. Time to get real. "
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" I always loved Oasis because when they came out, they did express that they loved us, and they saw that we did it, and they thought they could do it, too. "
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" My sister bought me the Koran in 1990. I always thought the stories in it were magical. "
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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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" You're never alone on the dole in Manchester. "
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Who
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