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" I started doing karate when I was 11. "
Ian Brown
Doing
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" 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. "
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" We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about. "
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Finish
Out
Started
" Putting another human being above yourself isn't healthy. I think it's capitalistic. "
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Think
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Yourself
" At primary school, I thought I was George Best. Then I got to secondary school, and it was more serious. "
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" We're all anti-royalist, anti-patriarch. Cos it's 1989. Time to get real. "
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Get
" 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
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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. "
Ian Brown
Sad
Dirty
Always
" I love harmonicas - old blues players like Sonny Boy Williamson. "
Ian Brown
Old
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Love
" I love people, me, I believe in people. I love people too much. "
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People
Believe
Love
" 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. "
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Myself
Working
Feeling
" If I was in the gutter, and my kids lived on the kerb, I'd go and get a job in B&Q before I'd reform the Roses. I gave everything I had to the Stone Roses and ended up hitting a brick wall. I'm never going to give anyone a foothold on that wall again. "
Ian Brown
Never
Job
Go
" My wife is Mexican, and she's really influenced me: She's got an impressive collection of Mexican music. "
Ian Brown
She
Wife
Music
" I give thanks for everything that's ever happened to me and for everything I've got. "
Ian Brown
Thanks
Got
Me
" You're never going to improve on a Michael Jackson song if you cover it. "
Ian Brown
Going
You
Song
" It's a horrible name, Coldplay. It doesn't conjure up any positive thoughts. "
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Thoughts
Up
" Hell is being stuck in a lift with Elton John and the Queen Mother. "
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Queen
Mother
Lift
" I see The Stone Roses in '89 as Technicolor: we were all about joy and possibilities of life. "
Ian Brown
Roses
Possibilities
Life
" One person might perceive me as godlike, and the next might think I'm a northern thug. I don't think I've done myself any favours... but I swear I've not had a proper fight since I was 14. "
Ian Brown
Thug
Think
Fight
" I like a lot of that Chicago stuff, house music. "
Ian Brown
House
Like
Music
" I was jailed for using words that I still dispute. Anyone who's ever met me will tell you that I'm not a violent person. "
Ian Brown
Person
Will
Words
" I gave it up three weeks before my black belt, foolishly. I got to my third brown belt and must have trained for 18 months but never went for it. I was nearly 18 and got this thing in my head about, ' Who are they to grade me?' Trying to be a rebel when I should have done it. It's my only regret, not going for a black belt. "
Ian Brown
Black
Trying
Regret
" When you live in Manchester and it's raining every day, you've got to imagine the sun sometimes. When you're brought up in concrete, you aim for the green leaves. And when you get to the green leaves, you yearn again for concrete. "
Ian Brown
You
Sun
Live
" When the ravens leave the Tower, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens. "
Ian Brown
Say
Tower
They Say
" 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. "
Ian Brown
People
Alive
Believe
" I've got six solo albums. I've been round the world three times. I don't even think about the Roses. "
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Roses
Solo
Got
" If you want to call me a Karaoke King, I'll take it. "
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" People want to adulate people. "
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Want
" 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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Call
Even
Always
" 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. "
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Single
Radio
Opportunities
" Oasis are okay, but they're like The Sun: base. "
Ian Brown
Oasis
Sun
Base