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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't stop a baby in Africa from starving to death... but we can afford enough technology and weaponry to blow the world up a million times over.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course I'm proud of what I've done, but I'm interested in what's next. I want to be relevant now, in 2012. I've done my bit for the past. I've only ever been about what's next, really, and I'll be that way until I keel over.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really. And I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kept the first Rickenbacker I ever got, a little short-scale John Lennon-type model. And I've got a couple of 12-string models, which are really nice, and I've got a Pete Townshend model, which Pete gave me a few years ago. But that's about it.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble. I don't only listen to the guitar player.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say you make your best work when you're in despair and all that, and at your lowest - but for me, I think happiness makes you positive, and I think that's a good creative place to write from.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just lazy journalism, but people start to accept it. If people spent an hour in my car driving around London and listening to the stuff I listen to, they'd hear some interesting stuff.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hear an album so many times during the course of making it that when I've just finished it, I don't want to hear it again. After you've taken a little bit of time away from it, you can come back to it, which can be scary. I'm happy with 'Sonik Kicks,' man.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had self-belief, though my sensitive side has never been fully appreciated. For every 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight,' I've written an 'English Rose.' People forget.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked my clothes, even before I could properly afford them. Clothes for me were never a cloak, a cover. They were how I chose to express myself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only time I ever really got into rap was back in the early '90s, and bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Gang Starr. Musically, they were really interesting. But when hip-hop acts start sampling Sting or Phil Collins, then I just don't get it at all.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right from the start with music, I was like, 'I'm just going to do this, and I don't care about anything else. There are certain things you have to give up, even at 13, 14: your Friday and Saturday nights, having a regular girl, lots of things like that. I look at Amy Winehouse, and I think perhaps she just don't want to do it that much.
- Connected
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60. I don't know, that's a commercial thing, but just the fact that other people like you... there's no point in making music, otherwise. Otherwise, you might as well make it in your bedroom and leave it there.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really. But also, for me, from the time I was, like, 10 years old, all I ever wanted to do was be in a band and make music.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's quite liberating to get to a certain age, 'cos you're not chasing number one hits or trying to be an international superstar. I've done all that. I'm not out to prove much more to anyone but myself really, to be an artist and see if there is a new undiscovered music out there for me to make.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I told my mum I was going to play my first gig when I was 14, she couldn't believe it, cause I was painfully shy at that time. But I just done it, put my head down and got through it. And I suppose there's still a little bit of that, even though it's many years later and I've been doing it for a long time.
- Evaporates
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a shy side to me that evaporates when I play on stage, and I like that. I think it's another facet of my character, and I need to do that.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is the most natural thing in the world. When we go to a gig and we all like it and we share that experience, it's the same sense of communion as a sacred rite in Borneo or wherever it may be; it just gets dressed up different. Its good for the soul.
- Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was such a massive fan of all the '60s pop bands, but if I had to single out one band, it would definitely be The Beatles.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the '90s, I think I rediscovered my guitar. The Jam was obviously very guitar-based, but in the Style Council I just got really disillusioned with playing the guitar. The further it went on, the less and less I played, to a point where I couldn't pick it up any more.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the best thing I can do is play live. The best way for me to put over what I'm trying to do is to play live. Whether it's an acoustic show, electric or whatever... if I shine at all, that's where it all really happens - it just took me a while to rediscover that.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Jam went through a phase of wearing satin jackets. But that was pre-getting signed and making it, when we were still playing the pubs and clubs - around '75. Shocking, really - what would you call them apart from 'horrible?' We'd wear these white zip-up bomber jackets with black kind of loon pants and black and white shoes.
- Disillusioned
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.
- Pop
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing wrong with pop!
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've not had Botox, no.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.
- Musician
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a musician is a noble profession.
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all honesty, I don't know what one song can change.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.
- Belief
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn't make my career out of old songs; it would do my head in.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people my age, their musical life ended in the '80s. They stick with what they know. But my tastes are much broader. And I don't want to stop learning.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I come from a time when all the artists I grew up with and I loved always used to try and push the boundaries, and there doesn't seem so much of that, really.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never saw myself as a spokesman for a generation. It was all a bit heavy for me. I saw myself as a songwriter and wrote for myself, which I still do, and I also wanted to communicate with my audience.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a pretty good thing for me.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time in my 40s where I thought, oh, it's all over - not just work, but I'm never going to feel young again, I'm always going to feel like I know what's going to happen, I'll know what to expect. Looking back I don't know if that was a midlife crisis, I don't know - but I don't feel that now. There's possibilities. It gets better.
- Bursts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm not one of those people who says, 'I've got to write a song every day.' I just store up ideas, and really I have to wait until it finds me; I know when I'm ready to write. It used to frustrate me, but it doesn't any more. It's just how it is.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so lucky, I'm just really grateful for what I've got around me - children and my wife and everything else.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020