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" I've always said prayers. "
Ian Brown
Said
Always
Prayers
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" 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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" I always loved Oasis because when they came out, they did express that they loved us, and they saw that we did it, and they thought they could do it, too. "
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Because
Always
" I can't think of anyone who's reformed for art's sake. That's why the Roses will never reform. "
Ian Brown
Why
Never
Art
" When I was 9, I was into T. Rex, Gary Glitter, and Alice Cooper. I knew The Beatles because my nan introduced me to them, but T. Rex was the first band I got into myself. I got 'Metal Guru' a few months after hearing 'Children of the Revolution' in Pwllheli in North Wales at a market. "
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Children
Me
Myself
" 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
" Northern soul was huge in Manchester in the '70s and '80s; I went to a lot of all-nighters. "
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Soul
Huge
Lot
" 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
" 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. "
Ian Brown
Light
People
You
" 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
Doing
" 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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Sad
Dirty
Always
" 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
Alive
Believe
" I actually was able to give up shopping in February '99. "
Ian Brown
February
Up
Shopping
" 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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Roses
People
You
" Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory. "
Ian Brown
Environment
Use
You
" I used to be one of those kids who couldn't keep my mouth shut. "
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Kids
Keep
Who
" 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
" 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
" People want to adulate people. "
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People
Want
" The Beatles were great; we know that. But we were trying to do a new thing. Why do we need to recreate the Sixties? "
Ian Brown
Trying
Why
New
" 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. "
Ian Brown
Yourself
You
Education
" I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography. "
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Make
Thought
Than
" We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers. "
Ian Brown
Show Business
Business
Hypocrisy
" My sister bought me the Koran in 1990. I always thought the stories in it were magical. "
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Me
Sister
Always
" 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
Who
" With the Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs. "
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Roses
Great
Successful
" 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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Me
Like
Love
" 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'm only really good at making music. I wasn't convinced when I started out, but then I heard the first Stone Roses' LP. "
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Music
Only
Good
" I was skint, and I had to move back to my mum and dad's house, back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me; it didn't mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken. "
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Father
Brother
People
" I love harmonicas - old blues players like Sonny Boy Williamson. "
Ian Brown
Old
Blues
Love