Tony Wilson Quotes

#1. Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

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#2. When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.

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#3. Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.

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#4. I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old.

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#5. Richard Branson once said: 'Tony's very good at selling bands and he's very good at making television programmes. But he'll never be great at either, until he decides which one he wants to do.' I entirely accept that. That doesn't matter to me very much. I like the irony of the two lives.

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#6. I'll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don't, that's fine too. But you should probably read more.

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#7. There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

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#8. I'm a minor player in my own life story.

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#9. Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

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#10. This is Manchester, we do things differently here

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#11. soothing seemed to work and soon the grunts petered away in to the rhythmic rasping of animal slumber. To keep the camel calm, he removed his saddle and unstrapped the heavy bag from its back, and took out his robe. In

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#12. I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.

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#13. Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

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#14. If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.

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