"That came from my mother. She was the……" — Tony Wilson
"That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct."
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14 Quotes by Tony Wilson
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Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.
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Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.
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I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old,
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When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.
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There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.
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The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment…
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Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it…
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This is Manchester, we do things differently here
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I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should…
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Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.
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I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.
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I'm a minor player in my own life story.
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