Julian Cope quotes
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“The TV licence people just can't believe we don't have a television. I'm a bolshie git. I shout at them things like, 'I don't need TV, I'm an intellectual.'”
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“Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true.”
-- Julian CopeSource : "Stone me!". Interview with Jon Savage, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2008.
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“To rally every black sheep is my goal.”
-- Julian CopeSource : "Stone me!". Interview with Jon Savage, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2008.
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“I signed contracts I didn't think were a good idea but people around me said it was the way forward. It saddens me that I'll never own my first album ever, which sucks.”
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“I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.”
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“I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.”
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“The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.”
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“The way people see you is the way you really are.”
-- Julian CopeSource : "Stone me!". Interview with Jon Savage, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2008.
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“My mission was always intended to be slightly outside the public eye, because that makes me appear more interesting than I really am. A lot of people don't realise that merely by staying away, you can create a myth.”
-- Julian CopeSource : "Julian Cope, the hit who became a myth". Interview with Andrew Perry, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 1, 2010.
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“Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.”
-- Julian CopeSource : "Stone me!". Interview with Jon Savage, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2008.
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“Im going to become the best-remembered artist of my generation by staying away from the party as often as possible. That way, people will remember me, not because I was great, but because I didnt cause them any later embarrassment.”
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“I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.”
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“Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.”
-- Julian Cope
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