Julian Cope Quotes

#1. 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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#2. Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true.

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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#5. To rally every black sheep is my goal.

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#6. 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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#7. I'm trying to do it my way. For me to be happy in the business means I have to do it myself.

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#8. The way people see you is the way you really are.

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#9. I'm 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 didn't cause them any later embarrassment.

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#10. Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.

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#11. I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn't important it would just be a poem.

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#12. 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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#13. 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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