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" We're all anti-royalist, anti-patriarch. Cos it's 1989. Time to get real. "
Ian Brown
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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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" We're the most important group in the world. "
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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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" 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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" People tend to settle for the fiver rather than going for the pot of gold. "
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" By 1993, the Stone Roses had become this huge, beautiful cruise ship just floating about in the middle of nowhere with no captain. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" I feel like the Ryan Giggs of music. "
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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'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties. "
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" I've always said prayers. "
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" You're never alone on the dole in Manchester. "
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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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" I used to be one of those kids who couldn't keep my mouth shut. "
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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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" Putting another human being above yourself isn't healthy. I think it's capitalistic. "
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" 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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" We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop. "
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" I was really into punk when I was about 14. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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