English - Musician | February 20, 1963 -
I actually was able to give up shopping in February '99.
Ian Brown
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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.
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By 1993, the Stone Roses had become this huge, beautiful cruise ship just floating about in the middle of nowhere with no captain.
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We're the most important group in the world.
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Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection.
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We feel we're the only British group worth exporting since the Sex Pistols, definitely.
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I never wanted to be a pop singer, but I always watched pop programs and knew I could do better than the people I was seeing.
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I like the fact that a group can become successful, and by way of what you are, you can show up all the other people who are around you.
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We believe that anyone can do anything, and everyone's a star. And that's evident from the shows we do. It just feels like a whole bunch of people in a room celebrating something - maybe just being alive.
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With the Roses, I knew we were great; I felt that we would achieve something. On my own, I had no idea.
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I wrote a lot of lyrics in prison, but they'd all be like, 'Crawls upon the shoulders, hatred in the eyes.' I wrote about 50 songs in there that were all about jail. I've come out and thought, 'I've only served eight weeks; I can't really write a concept album about jail.'
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Since we were kids, we grow up believing that astronauts are heroes - that to go up in a rocket is a heroic thing. These guys are bigger than movie stars. To me, it's... all a well-dressed-up lie, basically. There's billions spent on rockets up there, and there's millions starving down here. It don't make sense to me.
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