Some people have a God because they need faith, and that's fair enough. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I've got a talent, and people enjoy my songs, people love my songs; why stop? — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
What do people really believe in any more apart from sport and music? — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
The music industry wants safe rock stars, people who are totally homogenised. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
If you judge people by what they've done in the past, you're wrong. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Just because something's kinda indie and whatever and only a few people know it, it doesn't give it more authenticity over Rihanna's… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
You can radically change a person's life with a tune. I don't think people truly understand or appreciate how powerful that is. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Pop music might seem banal and simple to some people, but it's what it expresses that counts. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I've had tons of incredible conversations with people who say they got married or buried relatives to my songs. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
People wanted me to become this cliched Keith Richards, Iggy Pop character. I wasn't expected to marry a beautiful wife and have… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
The most sacred thing you can get is time. That's all people want on their death bed; that's what it's all about. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Not many people come out of a big band as the lead singer/songwriter and making a record, and all of a sudden… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I can't pin myself on any fixed religion, really. I'm just one of those sad, early-century people who just drifts around and… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I don't want to be responsible for messing up someone. I don't want to be responsible for that, because the things that… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
If I was a painter, I would have hundreds of finished and unfinished canvases in my studio waiting for people to see,… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I was always going to be vulnerable when I left the Verve. It was a hardening experience for me. People saw me… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
You can find the greatest sound of all time, and someone's going to squash it down to a tiny little earphone anyway… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
My job is to make grown men cry, to blow people's minds and elevate them, make them transcend and unlock emotions that… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people. I can be sold by the candy in life, and then it can be stripped away within… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
When you're in doubt about the future and you're in doubt about how solid this thing is that you're laying your life… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people. I can be sold by the candy in life, and then it can be stripped away within a split… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
The mad thing is, most of my life, when I'm not in a dark mood, it's been humour that's got me through. The only… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how fashion or politics changes; you'll never change a classic song. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have a problem expressing joy, but the difficulty is in making an album, a piece of music that really… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
There's a track called 'Why Not Nothing' about how the world's turning so conservative and so religious at the same time. I think it's… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
We'd lie on the floor, turn the lights out, put two speakers on either side of our ears, and try to blow our minds… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I don't think I have enough German blood in me to get into the royal family. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
You look at the Blur comeback, it was so smooth - so smooth - compared to The Verve. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I'm not driven by fame or success. I'm quite a shy, introverted person, and I could easily melt away into the background. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
![“Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the studio or writing or whatever, that's the closest moment [to creation]. And that's what keeps all these people addicted to getting back to that moment again.” quote by Richard Ashcroft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5fa/richard-ashcroft-4594_art_any-true-musician-true-artist-knows-that_1705590.jpg)
