Pretenders Quotes
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I had a feeling about what I wanted to say, and I wasn't really qualified to discuss real things out of America because I didn't grow up there.
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I had a very colorless background, and when I left Ohio and moved to England, nobody knew who I was and I had a real freedom. I could be free to experiment and experience things and I liked that a lot.
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When I'm DJing for two hours, I might play two or three Smiths songs.
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I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.
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I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.
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The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.
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I moved to Portland because Modest Mouse is there. I didn't necessarily mean to live there permanently, but I've got a really good feeling for it. The sensibility there really suits me. I happened to have grown up in Manchester, a city that was a pretty cool place to be a musician. It's close to Portland in a lot of ways.
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You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.
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I don't wish to embarrass anyone.
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I can only cook brown rice and vegetables, so I don't get too many people coming over for dinner parties or anything.
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My policy is to do the least amount to get by.
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I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.
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The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.
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I like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good, and I think she's a good singer.
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You can't record an album called 'Meat Is Murder' and slip out for a burger.
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I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.
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I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.
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All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.
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I expect people to at least use some thought.
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When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?
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If people can finally recognize you on radio without being told who it is, thats what you aim for.
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When Morrissey and I started The Smiths, we thought pop music was the most important thing in the world. It was almost a spiritual thing for us, and because of that, we knew what it meant to be a fan.
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Real success is not being on the cover of a magazine; it's knowing that you've done, and enjoyed doing, what you set out to do.
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Realize your own potential and try to live out your expectations of your potential.