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" Oasis are okay, but they're like The Sun: base. "
Ian Brown
Oasis
Sun
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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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" Maybe if you see me begging on the streets, you might find me doing The Stone Roses the next day. "
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" We should be growing carrots up the side of the Empire State Building or Big Ben. "
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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. "
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" People tend to settle for the fiver rather than going for the pot of gold. "
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" 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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" We feel we're the only British group worth exporting since the Sex Pistols, definitely. "
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" Putting another human being above yourself isn't healthy. I think it's capitalistic. "
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" We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about. "
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Started
" Honestly, going solo is the second best thing that's ever happened to me after my kids. "
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" I feel like I've established myself as a music maker in my own right. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Who
" 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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" 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 spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.' "
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" I actually was able to give up shopping in February '99. "
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" We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers. "
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Show Business
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Hypocrisy
" 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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" 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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" Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church. "
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