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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. "
Ian Brown
Music
Dance
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" 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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" I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less. "
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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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" 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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" We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about. "
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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. "
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" We're the most important group in the world. "
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" I'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things. "
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" It is a fact that everyone's got a limited run in music - but who's to say how long that run lasts? I used to think that there would be no way I'd still be in music when I was 40. I used to think anyone who was 40 was an old man, and they probably shouldn't be doing it anymore. "
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" I love people, me, I believe in people. I love people too much. "
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" I love karaoke - I usually do Blondie's 'Heart Of Glass,' or 'Try A Little Tenderness.' "
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Glass
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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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" When the ravens leave the Tower, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens. "
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Tower
They Say
" I used to be one of those kids who couldn't keep my mouth shut. "
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Kids
Keep
Who
" 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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People
Down
Look
" My wife is Mexican, and she's really influenced me: She's got an impressive collection of Mexican music. "
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She
Wife
Music
" Oasis are okay, but they're like The Sun: base. "
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Oasis
Sun
Base
" 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
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Her
" I actually was able to give up shopping in February '99. "
Ian Brown
February
Up
Shopping
" 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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Loved
Me
Queen
" People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago. "
Ian Brown
Men
Help
Children
" I give thanks for everything that's ever happened to me and for everything I've got. "
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Thanks
Got
Me
" I liked him, that Jarvis Cocker. I like the fact he was androgynous, he could appeal to everybody. He wasn't just a lad pretending to be a thug. "
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Pretending
Him
Just
" 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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Light
People
You
" Honestly, going solo is the second best thing that's ever happened to me after my kids. "
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Me
Second
Solo
" Everything I've ever achieved, I've done on my terms. "
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Terms
Ever
Done
" It's a horrible name, Coldplay. It doesn't conjure up any positive thoughts. "
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Positive
Thoughts
Up
" 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. "
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" You're never alone on the dole in Manchester. "
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Alone
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Never
" I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties. "
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Never
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