Paul Weller Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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.”
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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.”
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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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“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.”
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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.”
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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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“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.”
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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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