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Clearing books out of the garage, and found a small book entitled "Bigmouth Strikes Again" (given away with the NME in 1995, I think) full of pop/rock star quotations. Lots of Moz stuff and some other gems...
“I’m not a pop star. And if I am, I’m a real one, matey. I haven’t been invented, I’m an average lad who was born in Burnage, who played conkers. Conkers, mate, conkers. The f***ing lot.” Liam Gallagher, 1994.
“At the risk of sounding more pompous than I am, I was always more love than admired. I think musicians are admired, but I was always loved and I felt it. And I prefer that. Eric Clapton is admired, but who could love him? His own mother, perhaps.” Morrissey, 1991.
“My hero? It’s too easy to say Prince or Lynyrd Skynyrd, so I’ve invented someone, the first animal pop star – Jaquoranda. It has the head of a stag, wearing a sari, it’s long and thing and is a fantastical creature that comes to life through a computer, and is fed incredible music. I don’t think people have thought the future of pop belongs to animals.” Brett Anderson, 1994.
“A lot of people think I’m clinically mad.” Morrissey, 1989
“The 70’s is my era, really. I bumped into Les Gray from Mud at a service station, and he was doing all that kind of ‘Tiger Feet’ stomp as he was filling up his Allegro.” John Shuttleworth, 1992.
“We’re ‘The Smiths’ you can dance to.” Neil Tennant, 1988.
“’There’s gonna be a borstal breakout, there’s gonna be a borstal breakout!’ those were the days of real music! ” Dave Gahan, 1983.
“Margaret Thatcher’s head will be chopped off by the lightning sword. The Mirror God himself will chop off Margaret Thatcher’s head and kill the seven demons in her.” Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, 1990.
“Adam and Eve had two sons, yeah? They had a fight. One f***in’ son stabbed the other. So he comes back and says, ‘I f***in’ stabbed whatever he was called’. So Adam says, ‘Look, geezer, f*** off to the Land of Nod.’ The Land of Nod!? Where the f***in’ hell is that? My religion is The Beatles.” Liam Gallagher, 1994.
“The only black magic Sabbath ever got into was a box of chocolates.” Ozzy Osbourne, 1983.
“Suede? Turgid. It’s not even David Bowie again. You just get rid of Morrissey, he moves to America, you wake up in the morning and there’s Brett Anderson.” Robert Smith, 1993.
“Morrissey just typifies how f***ed-up you limeys are…get that grease outta your hair, get a girlfriend, get a James Brown CD, get some vitamin C, get some f***ing clean air and some sunlight, go for a walk – get over it!” Henry Rollins, 1992.
“Morrissey’s very f***ed-up. He’s been sitting in his room in Manchester for so long creating this persona he wanted to have in the pop world that now he doesn’t have anything to fall back on…he’s very witty, but finding any substance in his personality is not a very easy job.” Lloyd Cole, 1990.
“I’m not putting Elvis down, but he was a shitass, a yellow-belly and I hated the f***er.” Jerry Lee Lewis, 1989.
“Morrissey hated me because he thought we’d stolen lyrics from him, which we probably had.” Billy Duffy, 1989.
“The Housemartins? I couldn’t acknowledge them as the competition without a smile on my face. And if they really are our closest rivals, it’s no wonder I’m so confident about The Smiths.” Johnny Marr, 1987.
“Morrissey once said to me that my song, my entire lifestyle, was positively vaudevillian. When I got home I looked in the dictionary and agreed that he might be right.” Billy Bragg, 1986.
“The whole idea of womanhood is something that to me is largely unexplored. I’m realising things about women I’ve never notice before. The fact that I’ve scuttled through 26 years of my life without ever noticing that the contours of the body are different is an outrageous farce.” Morrissey, 1986.
“There’s nothing wrong with the odd sequin now and again.” Morrissey, 1989.
“I’m not a pop star. And if I am, I’m a real one, matey. I haven’t been invented, I’m an average lad who was born in Burnage, who played conkers. Conkers, mate, conkers. The f***ing lot.” Liam Gallagher, 1994.
“At the risk of sounding more pompous than I am, I was always more love than admired. I think musicians are admired, but I was always loved and I felt it. And I prefer that. Eric Clapton is admired, but who could love him? His own mother, perhaps.” Morrissey, 1991.
“My hero? It’s too easy to say Prince or Lynyrd Skynyrd, so I’ve invented someone, the first animal pop star – Jaquoranda. It has the head of a stag, wearing a sari, it’s long and thing and is a fantastical creature that comes to life through a computer, and is fed incredible music. I don’t think people have thought the future of pop belongs to animals.” Brett Anderson, 1994.
“A lot of people think I’m clinically mad.” Morrissey, 1989
“The 70’s is my era, really. I bumped into Les Gray from Mud at a service station, and he was doing all that kind of ‘Tiger Feet’ stomp as he was filling up his Allegro.” John Shuttleworth, 1992.
“We’re ‘The Smiths’ you can dance to.” Neil Tennant, 1988.
“’There’s gonna be a borstal breakout, there’s gonna be a borstal breakout!’ those were the days of real music! ” Dave Gahan, 1983.
“Margaret Thatcher’s head will be chopped off by the lightning sword. The Mirror God himself will chop off Margaret Thatcher’s head and kill the seven demons in her.” Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, 1990.
“Adam and Eve had two sons, yeah? They had a fight. One f***in’ son stabbed the other. So he comes back and says, ‘I f***in’ stabbed whatever he was called’. So Adam says, ‘Look, geezer, f*** off to the Land of Nod.’ The Land of Nod!? Where the f***in’ hell is that? My religion is The Beatles.” Liam Gallagher, 1994.
“The only black magic Sabbath ever got into was a box of chocolates.” Ozzy Osbourne, 1983.
“Suede? Turgid. It’s not even David Bowie again. You just get rid of Morrissey, he moves to America, you wake up in the morning and there’s Brett Anderson.” Robert Smith, 1993.
“Morrissey just typifies how f***ed-up you limeys are…get that grease outta your hair, get a girlfriend, get a James Brown CD, get some vitamin C, get some f***ing clean air and some sunlight, go for a walk – get over it!” Henry Rollins, 1992.
“Morrissey’s very f***ed-up. He’s been sitting in his room in Manchester for so long creating this persona he wanted to have in the pop world that now he doesn’t have anything to fall back on…he’s very witty, but finding any substance in his personality is not a very easy job.” Lloyd Cole, 1990.
“I’m not putting Elvis down, but he was a shitass, a yellow-belly and I hated the f***er.” Jerry Lee Lewis, 1989.
“Morrissey hated me because he thought we’d stolen lyrics from him, which we probably had.” Billy Duffy, 1989.
“The Housemartins? I couldn’t acknowledge them as the competition without a smile on my face. And if they really are our closest rivals, it’s no wonder I’m so confident about The Smiths.” Johnny Marr, 1987.
“Morrissey once said to me that my song, my entire lifestyle, was positively vaudevillian. When I got home I looked in the dictionary and agreed that he might be right.” Billy Bragg, 1986.
“The whole idea of womanhood is something that to me is largely unexplored. I’m realising things about women I’ve never notice before. The fact that I’ve scuttled through 26 years of my life without ever noticing that the contours of the body are different is an outrageous farce.” Morrissey, 1986.
“There’s nothing wrong with the odd sequin now and again.” Morrissey, 1989.
