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" People tend to settle for the fiver rather than going for the pot of gold. "

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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. "

" You're never alone on the dole in Manchester. "

" If you want to call me a Karaoke King, I'll take it. "

" We feel we're the only British group worth exporting since the Sex Pistols, definitely. "

" I'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things. "

" 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. "

" I'd love to see the world without liquor for a week. "

" We're the most important group in the world. "

" I can't think of anyone who's reformed for art's sake. That's why the Roses will never reform. "

" 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. "

" I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less. "

" I don't like to play anywhere with a banner for Carlsberg or vodka or whatever. I'm not a drinker myself, and I don't like feeling like I'm working for the liquor companies. "

" 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. "

" It's a horrible name, Coldplay. It doesn't conjure up any positive thoughts. "

" Northern soul was huge in Manchester in the '70s and '80s; I went to a lot of all-nighters. "

" I actually was able to give up shopping in February '99. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People want to adulate people. "

" 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. "

" I've not thought about the Stone Roses since we quit. How many LPs do I have to make to stop people talking about it? "

" With the Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about. "

" 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. "

" When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time. "

" 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. "