- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Horrible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a horrible name, Coldplay. It doesn't conjure up any positive thoughts.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love karaoke - I usually do Blondie's 'Heart Of Glass,' or 'Try A Little Tenderness.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a friend's 40th in Manchester, and there was a karaoke machine, and no one was having a go. My mate said, 'No one's singing because you're in the room.' I said, 'Who am I, Frank Sinatra?' They made me sing flipping 'My Star' to a backing track that sounded like '80s Roxy Music. It was pretty embarrassing, but I did it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Putting another human being above yourself isn't healthy. I think it's capitalistic.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Beatles were great; we know that. But we were trying to do a new thing. Why do we need to recreate the Sixties?
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Oasis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oasis are okay, but they're like The Sun: base.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up.
- Magical
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sister bought me the Koran in 1990. I always thought the stories in it were magical.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've always said prayers.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see The Stone Roses in '89 as Technicolor: we were all about joy and possibilities of life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting a grey beard's not cool.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to see the world without liquor for a week.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't think of anyone who's reformed for art's sake. That's why the Roses will never reform.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
In March 1977, I taped the single 'Career Opportunities' off Piccadilly Radio, which was the '70s equivalent of downloading, and then the album came out in April 1977.
- Punk
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really into punk when I was about 14.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Roses should have made it as the biggest band since The Beatles, but we didn't.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't on stage to be worshipped or for people to look up to me. I was with the crowd.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even me mum can't tell me what to do.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.'
- Manchester
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're never alone on the dole in Manchester.
- Nov 07, 2020
People want to adulate people.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lucky enough to be one of them music makers who can do a dance festie or a rock festie.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Karate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started doing karate when I was 11.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gave it up three weeks before my black belt, foolishly. I got to my third brown belt and must have trained for 18 months but never went for it. I was nearly 18 and got this thing in my head about, ' Who are they to grade me?' Trying to be a rebel when I should have done it. It's my only regret, not going for a black belt.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
At primary school, I thought I was George Best. Then I got to secondary school, and it was more serious.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should be growing carrots up the side of the Empire State Building or Big Ben.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
I give thanks for everything that's ever happened to me and for everything I've got.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I've ever achieved, I've done on my terms.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, going solo is the second best thing that's ever happened to me after my kids.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Feel Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like the Ryan Giggs of music.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the ravens leave the Tower, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because I'm a successful singer who's loved and has been loved for years doesn't mean I'm sitting behind electric gates in my own fantasy land.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020