Hot Chocolate Quotes
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Once I got married and had my children, I left the life. That's why I can walk away from this, i don't have to be looking for love. When you play to 100,000 people and you come off stage and there's nobody there for you, that's the saddest day of your life.
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I'm a minor player in my own life story.
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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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Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.
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This is Manchester, we do things differently here.
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The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.
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If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.
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Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.
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I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.
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There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.
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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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When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.
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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 in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.
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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 probably read more.