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- Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.
- In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist…
- My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the…
- I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there.
- It doesn't stop. It really doesn't stop. It's the way I live every single day. I don't do anything else. I have no other interest…
- I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all…
- Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.
- I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met…
- I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I…
- I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has…
- Work is a four-letter word.
- I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
- That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
- The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.
- I first bought a Buffy Sainte-Marie record when I was 12, and her music has always remained with me. In the 1960s, as a political…
- I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.
- I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with…
- Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life
- I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.
- You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you.
- With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.
- I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.
- Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.
- Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.
- The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.
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