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" I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up. "
Ian Brown
Myself
Up
Then
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" I give thanks for everything that's ever happened to me and for everything I've got. "
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" We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers. "
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" I'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things. "
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" I've always said prayers. "
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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. "
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" 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 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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" 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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" You're never going to improve on a Michael Jackson song if you cover it. "
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" 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
" 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. "
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People
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" Stardom's transitory. Nothing really changes except people's attitudes. "
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People
Stardom
" People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago. "
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" I've never chatted up a girl in me life. I've always let girls come to me. I've never approached a girl to chat her up. "
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Always
Me
Her
" I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties. "
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Roses
Paid
" Honestly, going solo is the second best thing that's ever happened to me after my kids. "
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Me
Second
Solo
" 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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Music
Change
People
" I'm lucky enough to be one of them music makers who can do a dance festie or a rock festie. "
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Music
Dance
Who
" We wrote 'Stellify' for Rihanna, but as we got to the end of writing it, I thought, 'You know what? I'm gonna keep this for myself. We'll give her another one.' She'd have probably sung it better, but it is too good for me not to do it. "
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Me
End
Myself
" 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. "
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Black
Trying
Regret
" 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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Ship
Stone
" I see The Stone Roses in '89 as Technicolor: we were all about joy and possibilities of life. "
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" I'd love to see the world without liquor for a week. "
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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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Roses
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" Getting a grey beard's not cool. "
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Getting
Grey
" I wasn't on stage to be worshipped or for people to look up to me. I was with the crowd. "
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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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Jail
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Out
" People want to adulate people. "
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" I love karaoke - I usually do Blondie's 'Heart Of Glass,' or 'Try A Little Tenderness.' "
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