Ian Brown Quotes

Most Famous Ian Brown Quotes of All Time!

We have created a collection of some of the best ian-brown quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Ian Brown Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

Popular Quotes Topics for You.

I like a lot of that Chicago stuff, house music.

It's a horrible name, Coldplay. It doesn't conjure up any positive thoughts.

I love karaoke - I usually do Blondie's 'Heart Of Glass,' or 'Try A Little Tenderness.'

I went to a friend's 40th in Manchester, and there was a karaoke machine, and no one was having a go. My mate said, 'No one's singing because you're in the room.' I said, 'Who am I, Frank Sinatra?' They made me sing flipping 'My Star' to a backing track that sounded like '80s Roxy Music. It was pretty embarrassing, but I did it.

I'd like to write songs for other people, see things from a different perspective. I'd like to watch things from the dugout instead of the pitch.

Putting another human being above yourself isn't healthy. I think it's capitalistic.

Stardom's transitory. Nothing really changes except people's attitudes.

When you live in Manchester and it's raining every day, you've got to imagine the sun sometimes. When you're brought up in concrete, you aim for the green leaves. And when you get to the green leaves, you yearn again for concrete.

The Beatles were great; we know that. But we were trying to do a new thing. Why do we need to recreate the Sixties?

I love people, me, I believe in people. I love people too much.

My biggest fault is that I give people too much credit. Then they let you down. I'm 99.9 per cent perfect - that's how I look at myself and, therefore, everybody else too.

I used to be one of those kids who couldn't keep my mouth shut.

Oasis are okay, but they're like The Sun: base.

I started managing myself in October 2004, and since then, it's gone up and up.

My sister bought me the Koran in 1990. I always thought the stories in it were magical.

I've always said prayers.

I see The Stone Roses in '89 as Technicolor: we were all about joy and possibilities of life.

They've had a hard life, the Oasis brothers. They've done really well to be semi-normal. It's always sad when your dirty linen is brought out in public.

You'll never find a Manchester band slagging off another Manchester band, but within each Manchester band, people will rip each other apart: Mondays, Smiths, New Order, Roses, Oasis.

I was skint, and I had to move back to my mum and dad's house, back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me; it didn't mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken.

Some of the kids who discovered me from my 'F.E.A.R.' record or one of the U.N.K.L.E. tunes have said, 'I don't even like the Roses; I love your solo stuff.' I buzz off that.

Getting a grey beard's not cool.

I'd love to see the world without liquor for a week.

People in Russia learned English off the Beatles. People in Japan learned English off the Stone Roses. Noel Gallagher says music can't change the world, but the Roses made him want to start a group, so it changed his world.

I can't think of anyone who's reformed for art's sake. That's why the Roses will never reform.

In March 1977, I taped the single 'Career Opportunities' off Piccadilly Radio, which was the '70s equivalent of downloading, and then the album came out in April 1977.

I was really into punk when I was about 14.

The Roses should have made it as the biggest band since The Beatles, but we didn't.

I wasn't on stage to be worshipped or for people to look up to me. I was with the crowd.

We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about.

Even me mum can't tell me what to do.

I spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.'

You're never alone on the dole in Manchester.

The jails are full of kids from kids' homes. You're 16 years old, and you're out on the street. How you going to fend for yourself at 16 if you've not had an education? You're going to turn to crime.

People want to adulate people.

I was jailed for using words that I still dispute. Anyone who's ever met me will tell you that I'm not a violent person.

I'm lucky enough to be one of them music makers who can do a dance festie or a rock festie.

I don't like to play anywhere with a banner for Carlsberg or vodka or whatever. I'm not a drinker myself, and I don't like feeling like I'm working for the liquor companies.

I liked him, that Jarvis Cocker. I like the fact he was androgynous, he could appeal to everybody. He wasn't just a lad pretending to be a thug.

I started doing karate when I was 11.

I gave it up three weeks before my black belt, foolishly. I got to my third brown belt and must have trained for 18 months but never went for it. I was nearly 18 and got this thing in my head about, ' Who are they to grade me?' Trying to be a rebel when I should have done it. It's my only regret, not going for a black belt.

At primary school, I thought I was George Best. Then I got to secondary school, and it was more serious.

We should be growing carrots up the side of the Empire State Building or Big Ben.

We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop.

Permacultures - where you use the immediate environment to grow food - should be mandatory.

People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago.

I'm only really good at making music. I wasn't convinced when I started out, but then I heard the first Stone Roses' LP.

I'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things.

I give thanks for everything that's ever happened to me and for everything I've got.

Everything I've ever achieved, I've done on my terms.

Honestly, going solo is the second best thing that's ever happened to me after my kids.

You're never going to improve on a Michael Jackson song if you cover it.

It is a fact that everyone's got a limited run in music - but who's to say how long that run lasts? I used to think that there would be no way I'd still be in music when I was 40. I used to think anyone who was 40 was an old man, and they probably shouldn't be doing it anymore.

I've never chatted up a girl in me life. I've always let girls come to me. I've never approached a girl to chat her up.

Belief outweighs talent. Self-belief's got me everything, self-belief.

People tend to settle for the fiver rather than going for the pot of gold.

Hell is being stuck in a lift with Elton John and the Queen Mother.

Everybody is a star. It's true. And if you've got a light, don't let it go out. 'Cos some people sink under.

I feel like the Ryan Giggs of music.

We're all anti-royalist, anti-patriarch. Cos it's 1989. Time to get real.

When the ravens leave the Tower, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens.

When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time.

I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are.

I thought it would be more interesting to make a musical autobiography than an actual autobiography.

Just because I'm a successful singer who's loved and has been loved for years doesn't mean I'm sitting behind electric gates in my own fantasy land.

I'm solo, and I love being solo. I believe I went through the Roses so I could become a solo music-maker. That's what I believe.

I don't actually personally get off on guitar music.

Guys, we are trying to share Unique Ian Brown Quotes, so you will not get to read the same things again and again on our website. You can also share your favorites on Facebook or send them to a friend who loves to reading quotes.