Ian Brown

People in Russia learned English off the Beatles. People in Japan learned English off the Stone Roses. Noel Gallagher says music can't…

— Ian Brown

You're never alone on the dole in Manchester.

— Ian Brown

If I was in the gutter, and my kids lived on the kerb, I'd go and get a job in B&Q before…

— Ian Brown

We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop.

— Ian Brown

Oasis are okay, but they're like The Sun: base.

— Ian Brown

I went to a friend's 40th in Manchester, and there was a karaoke machine, and no one was having a go. My…

— Ian Brown

People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago.

— Ian Brown

If you want to call me a Karaoke King, I'll take it.

— Ian Brown

We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers.

— Ian Brown

What does it feel like to represent a newspaper that used to support Adolf Hitler? And supports the banker Kabbalists that are…

— Ian Brown

I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are.

— Ian Brown

One thing I've always loved and rated me dad for is that, because of him, I've never seen the Queen's Christmas speech.

— Ian Brown

At primary school, I thought I was George Best. Then I got to secondary school, and it was more serious.

— Ian Brown

The Roses should have made it as the biggest band since The Beatles, but we didn't.

— Ian Brown

I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less.

— Ian Brown

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…

— Ian Brown

One person might perceive me as godlike, and the next might think I'm a northern thug. I don't think I've done myself…

— Ian Brown

We'll keep writing and if it hits our standards we'll go with it. We're not here to destroy anything. It's as precious…

— Ian Brown

I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up.

— Ian Brown

With the Roses, I knew we were great; I felt that we would achieve something. On my own, I had no idea.

— Ian Brown

I'm only really good at making music. I wasn't convinced when I started out, but then I heard the first Stone Roses'…

— Ian Brown

I'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things.

— Ian Brown

I don't like to play anywhere with a banner for Carlsberg or vodka or whatever. I'm not a drinker myself, and I…

— Ian Brown

When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time.

— Ian Brown

I liked him, that Jarvis Cocker. I like the fact he was androgynous, he could appeal to everybody. He wasn't just a…

— Ian Brown