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" If you want to call me a Karaoke King, I'll take it. "
Ian Brown
Take
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" Everybody is a star. It's true. And if you've got a light, don't let it go out. 'Cos some people sink under. "
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" I'd like to write songs for other people, see things from a different perspective. I'd like to watch things from the dugout instead of the pitch. "
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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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" 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. "
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" When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time. "
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" My wife is Mexican, and she's really influenced me: She's got an impressive collection of Mexican music. "
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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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" Belief outweighs talent. Self-belief's got me everything, self-belief. "
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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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" I see The Stone Roses in '89 as Technicolor: we were all about joy and possibilities of life. "
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" We should be growing carrots up the side of the Empire State Building or Big Ben. "
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Side
" The Beatles were great; we know that. But we were trying to do a new thing. Why do we need to recreate the Sixties? "
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New
" 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. "
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Always
" 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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" 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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" 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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Queen
" I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up. "
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Myself
Up
Then
" 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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Why
Never
Art
" Getting a grey beard's not cool. "
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Beard
Getting
Grey
" Maybe if you see me begging on the streets, you might find me doing The Stone Roses the next day. "
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You
Stone
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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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People
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Believe
" Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory. "
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You
" I wrote a lot of lyrics in prison, but they'd all be like, 'Crawls upon the shoulders, hatred in the eyes.' I wrote about 50 songs in there that were all about jail. I've come out and thought, 'I've only served eight weeks; I can't really write a concept album about jail.' "
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" Honestly, going solo is the second best thing that's ever happened to me after my kids. "
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" We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about. "
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Finish
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Started
" With the Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs. "
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Great
Successful
" 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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" I started doing karate when I was 11. "
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" Oasis are okay, but they're like The Sun: base. "
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