Paul Weller quotes
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“Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.”
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“I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.”
-- Paul WellerSource : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. September 9, 2008.
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“The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.”
-- Paul WellerSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.”
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“I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.”
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“Young people can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well. They don't feel the need to own it. They certainly don't feel the need to pay for it. I'd have to save up for weeks to buy an album when I was a kid, and that made it even more great for me when I finally got that thing in my hand.”
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“Being a musician is a noble profession.”
-- Paul WellerSource : "Paul Weller: I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me" by Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2010.
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“You can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well.”
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“I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.”
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“I get bored quickly. I kind of take my hat off to bands who have been around for a long time and still do the same thing, because it's hard to keep a band together for decades. But I couldn't do that. I couldn't play the same songs night after night or just trade on my past glories, because it wouldn't interest me as a person.”
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“I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.”
-- Paul WellerSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The Beatles changed the world. They certainly changed my world, and many, many other individuals as well.”
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“There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.”
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“I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really.”
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“The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff.”
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“There are areas of music that I've never been to before, so that's always nice thing to have in life. That there are other areas you haven't been to. You haven't covered all the ground, and there's plenty more uncharted territory to cover as well.”
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“If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60.”
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“I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost.”
-- Paul WellerSource : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. September 9, 2008.
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“If you're in music, you're in music, and if you're in music you just want to keep making records and playing. That's what it's about, isn't it? At least, that's what I always thought it was about, anyway.”
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“I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous piece”
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“Why not go down the pub? A guy once came up to me at a gig and asked me if I had MySpace. I said, 'This is my space, and you're invading it.'”
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“I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I dont necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.”
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“I don't feel old or young, I just am”
-- Paul WellerSource : Twitter post from Jan 27, 2018
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“When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.”
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“I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.”
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“The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.”
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“I wear jeans and a T-shirt sometimes. I just like clothes - since the first time I can remember, like age ten or eleven; I was just obsessed with music and clothes. Just like a lot of people in England from my generation.”
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“Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.”
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“You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.”
-- Paul WellerSource : "Paul Weller: 'You've Got to Be Willing to Upset People'". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.
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“When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.”
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“I'm so lucky, I'm just really grateful for what I've got around me - children and my wife and everything else.”
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“If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.”
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“I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.”
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“Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.”
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“I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.”
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“I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.”
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“I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.”
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“I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action.”
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“I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.”
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“People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.”
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“Life is a drink and you get drunk when you're young.”
-- Paul WellerSource : "Song: When You're Young". August 17, 1979.
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“There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them.”
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“If we get through for two minutes only it will be a start!”
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“In all honesty, I don't know what one song can change.”
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“When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little recess type thing, hardly a hallway, really, and I'd sit there writing songs with my guitar.”
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“I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.”
-- Paul WellerSource : FaceBook post by Paul Weller from May 07, 2017
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“I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country.”
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“I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s.”
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“I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a pretty good thing for me.”
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“I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.”
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“In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.”
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“It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it's encouraging.”
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“There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.”
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“Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.”
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“People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from”
-- Paul WellerSource : Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2012.
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“When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.”
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“The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time.”
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“I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.”
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“I've always liked my clothes, even before I could properly afford them. Clothes for me were never a cloak, a cover. They were how I chose to express myself.”
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“If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals...”
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“No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.”
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“I'd like to think I've left something in the world. Without in any way trying to be morbid, but life is very short, and I'd like to think I'd leave some body of work that would inspire other musicians long after I've gone.”
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“I play out my role, I've even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I'm beaten...”
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