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" I wasn't on stage to be worshipped or for people to look up to me. I was with the crowd. "
Ian Brown
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" I'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things. "
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" The jails are full of kids from kids' homes. You're 16 years old, and you're out on the street. How you going to fend for yourself at 16 if you've not had an education? You're going to turn to crime. "
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" I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about. "
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" I'd love to see the world without liquor for a week. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" The Roses should have made it as the biggest band since The Beatles, but we didn't. "
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" You're never alone on the dole in Manchester. "
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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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" I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties. "
Ian Brown
Never
Roses
Paid
" I never wanted to be a pop singer, but I always watched pop programs and knew I could do better than the people I was seeing. "
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Never
Seeing
Always
" I spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.' "
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" I went to a friend's 40th in Manchester, and there was a karaoke machine, and no one was having a go. My mate said, 'No one's singing because you're in the room.' I said, 'Who am I, Frank Sinatra?' They made me sing flipping 'My Star' to a backing track that sounded like '80s Roxy Music. It was pretty embarrassing, but I did it. "
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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 started doing karate when I was 11. "
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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 need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop. "
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Stop
Need
" Everything I've ever achieved, I've done on my terms. "
Ian Brown
Terms
Ever
Done
" 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. "
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" I was really into punk when I was about 14. "
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" I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are. "
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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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