Song Quotes by Pete Doherty

8 Song quotes by Pete Doherty

Pete Doherty’s eight concise verses on song blend raw honesty with a bohemian edge. Though the collection is modest, each line offers a glimpse of his unfiltered, heartfelt approach to melody.

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The only thing that makes sense to me that I've learnt over the years is knocking tunes together.

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'You Talk' was originally a copy of a certain Velvet Underground song.

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If Oasis is the sound of a council estate singing its heart out, then the Libertines sounded like someone just putting something…

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The fact that I'm obviously well enough to be playing - in fine fettle and fine singing voice, yet I am not…

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My family used to say, point-blank, 'We'd support you if we thought you could sing, or we thought you could write songs,…

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My sound is just vintage Vox AC30s and Marshalls... Matchless amps are cool as well.

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You want to dance. You want to sing. Yeah, that feeling, of course, is beyond recollection really.

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I used to write songs to get love, but now that I have it, I don't feel the need to anymore.

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I feel a lot better when I've got a bit of cash on me.

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If you've lost your faith in love and music then the end won't be long.

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I'm not really a fighter, but I've never backed down from anyone in Paris. I feel I can't. In London, I'll just run because…

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I don't know; we'll see what happens with Brexit. If they make it so that you can't travel any more without a visa, I'm…

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My older sister, Amy Jo, and I - we are the first generation of my family to stay on at school and do any…

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For a little while, maybe I did fall for my own mythology.

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I just wanted to get on telly. I wasn't a massive Oasis fan, but I had to be in order to get on the…

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Liverpool and London are two places I looked upon as home.

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I've lived in Liverpool, London, Belfast, Germany, Coventry, Dorset, and Cyprus.

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When you're young and idealistic, you don't care: you'll play to no one, in your bedroom - like kids with football - you'll play…

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Humanity's always been weird at heart. Look at how societies form, rituals, practices, even rock n' roll. Humanity really is dark and twisted.

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Maybe I'm actually an optimist.

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In my own sweet way, I'm quite a superficial person.

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I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways.

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I'd say exercising self-control is very important for a dissolute life.

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