Song Quotes by John Cooper Clarke

When the punk rock thing happened, I thought, 'Right, I have one chance here to be seen as part of some wider social phenomenon.'

— John Cooper Clarke

To make the hips the focal point of a pair of trousers is, to me, a fashion mistake.

— John Cooper Clarke

The greatest threat to any artist is surrounding themselves with people who love everything they do.

— John Cooper Clarke

The first time I heard rock'n'roll on a big sound system would have been at a fairground at the seaside. That's a hell of…

— John Cooper Clarke

My favourite writers are columnists.

— John Cooper Clarke

As they used to say on Stingray, ‘Anything can happen in the next half hour’. I’ve always tried to live with that thought in…

— John Cooper Clarke

It was a tedious saying among hippies: if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. I was very much part…

— John Cooper Clarke

No one wants to be a source of anxiety to everybody they know.

— John Cooper Clarke

From social pariah to King of the World? It's taken 45 years, so I've been able to adjust to it!

— John Cooper Clarke

Well, I've obviously been a great source of inspiration to the academic population of Salford! They're citing me as a major contribution to their…

— John Cooper Clarke

They're very different things, a poem and a song, you wouldn't think they would be, but they are.

— John Cooper Clarke

I've got a speech impediment.

— John Cooper Clarke

I enjoy gigging in industrial towns. It seems to be where I go down the best. Somewhere where they have a history of manufacturing,…

— John Cooper Clarke

I don't work with anybody I don't like, just for the attention.

— John Cooper Clarke

Poverty - the one thing money can't buy

— John Cooper Clarke