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" I love karaoke - I usually do Blondie's 'Heart Of Glass,' or 'Try A Little Tenderness.' "
Ian Brown
Glass
Love
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" By 1993, the Stone Roses had become this huge, beautiful cruise ship just floating about in the middle of nowhere with no captain. "
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" I started doing karate when I was 11. "
Ian Brown
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Started
" 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. "
Ian Brown
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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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" 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. "
Ian Brown
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" I love people, me, I believe in people. I love people too much. "
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" I spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.' "
Ian Brown
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" We're all anti-royalist, anti-patriarch. Cos it's 1989. Time to get real. "
Ian Brown
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Real
Get
" One thing I've always loved and rated me dad for is that, because of him, I've never seen the Queen's Christmas speech. "
Ian Brown
Loved
Me
Queen
" Putting another human being above yourself isn't healthy. I think it's capitalistic. "
Ian Brown
Think
Above
Yourself
" With the Roses, I knew we were great; I felt that we would achieve something. On my own, I had no idea. "
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Great
Roses
Own
" I'm only really good at making music. I wasn't convinced when I started out, but then I heard the first Stone Roses' LP. "
Ian Brown
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Only
Good
" I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up. "
Ian Brown
Myself
Up
Then
" The Roses should have made it as the biggest band since The Beatles, but we didn't. "
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Roses
Since
" People want to adulate people. "
Ian Brown
People
Want
" I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are. "
Ian Brown
Think
I Am
Music
" I don't actually personally get off on guitar music. "
Ian Brown
Get
Personally
Off
" With the Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs. "
Ian Brown
Roses
Great
Successful
" My sister bought me the Koran in 1990. I always thought the stories in it were magical. "
Ian Brown
Me
Sister
Always
" 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
" We should be growing carrots up the side of the Empire State Building or Big Ben. "
Ian Brown
Big
Up
Side
" When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time. "
Ian Brown
Roses
Stone
Time
" I feel like the Roses were a great group, but I never wanted to try to do it again. I knew I couldn't get a band that would compare to the Roses, that would have an impact like the Roses. "
Ian Brown
Band
Roses
Impact
" In March 1977, I taped the single 'Career Opportunities' off Piccadilly Radio, which was the '70s equivalent of downloading, and then the album came out in April 1977. "
Ian Brown
Single
Radio
Opportunities
" I like the fact that a group can become successful, and by way of what you are, you can show up all the other people who are around you. "
Ian Brown
Group
People
Successful
" Since we were kids, we grow up believing that astronauts are heroes - that to go up in a rocket is a heroic thing. These guys are bigger than movie stars. To me, it's... all a well-dressed-up lie, basically. There's billions spent on rockets up there, and there's millions starving down here. It don't make sense to me. "
Ian Brown
Stars
Down
Grow
" We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop. "
Ian Brown
Potatoes
Stop
Need
" Even me mum can't tell me what to do. "
Ian Brown
Tell
Mum
Me
" The Beatles were great; we know that. But we were trying to do a new thing. Why do we need to recreate the Sixties? "
Ian Brown
Trying
Why
New
" I'm solo, and I love being solo. I believe I went through the Roses so I could become a solo music-maker. That's what I believe. "
Ian Brown
I Believe
Love
Roses