Edwyn Collins quotes

“The first thing that got to me was seeing David Bowie on a children's TV show, but Bowie was way beyond my aspirations. The Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch came out in 1977 and it had a breakdown of the recording costs, then you saw Pete Shelley playing a broken guitar from Woolworths. We already had an idea of the kind of music we wanted to do, but punk showed us a way to do it.”
-- Edwyn Collins

Source : "Home entertainment". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 07, 2002.

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“At first it was difficult for me to draw. My right hand doesn't work anymore so I had to train myself to use my left hand. But I persevered. The first one I ended up finishing was the duck.”
-- Edwyn Collins

Source : Source: www.vice.com

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“I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.”
-- Edwyn Collins

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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“I was crazy back then, I must admit. I had an extreme attitude.”
-- Edwyn Collins

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 17, 2010.

#Attitude Quotes #Crazy Quotes #Extremes Quotes

“I'm working and it's great. Life's great. Believe me on that. So what if I had a stroke? I'm getting on with things.”
-- Edwyn Collins

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 17, 2010.

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“Music is my life and my passion.”
-- Edwyn Collins

Source : "5-10-15-20: Edwyn Collins". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 17, 2010.

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“I love my music and recording people.”
-- Edwyn Collins

Source : "5-10-15-20: Edwyn Collins". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 17, 2010.

#People Quotes

“I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.”
-- Edwyn Collins

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 17, 2010.

#Believe Quotes #Men Quotes #People Quotes

“Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.”

“Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.”

“Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.”

“I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.”

“I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.”

“The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams, gasoline, guitars screaming like whips, MIDI-programmed Thanatos, with sufficient amplitude to occupy that hollow space where consciousness once resided. These Dionysians obliterate themselves by removing filters, ultimately becoming insensate with sensation. This mode of behaviour originates in the superstitious belief that transcendence is acquired in the precise ratio by which reason is destroyed.”

“Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.”

“I work on a TV show I love, I have the opportunity to do movies with actors I respect, and I'm in love with the man I want to spend the rest of my life with, who pushes me and excites me...There's this fighter in me that kind of needs to be put to rest a little bit. I don't need to be so tough to protect myself.”

Source : "Fun Fearless Female of the Year: Ali Larter". www.cosmopolitan.com. January 13, 2009.

“You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.”

“You start to think bigger when you see how quickly a TV show can catch on in a whole country. That confidence, and thinking big, opened a lot of doors.”