Dury Quotes

#1. I never got lessons. I took influence from Chet Baker, Ian Dury, and Joe Strummer. I don't hear my voice and think, 'Yeah, that's a banging voice!' It's more about putting the right emotions into the right words and the lyrics than anything else to me.

King Krule

#2. The aim of the joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

George Orwell

#3. I go down the street thinking, 'Oh my God, I live in New York.' But then I think, 'Oh my God, I'm on Broadway!'

Ciara Renee

#4. Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.

Daisaku Ikeda

#5. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll is all my brain and body need. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll is very good indeed.

Ian Dury

#6. It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

Lev Grossman

#7. There ain't half been some clever bastards

Ian Dury

#8. I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

John Edensor Littlewood

#9. That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

Itzhak Perlman

#10. For every good song, I write 20 bad ones I have to chuck away.

Ian Dury

#11. Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

John Dryden

#12. I'm in love with the person in the sandwich centre. If she didn't exist I'd have to invent her.

Ian Dury

#13. There are a couple of ways to avoid death, one is to be magnificent.

Ian Dury

#14. I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

Ian Dury

#15. All I want for my birthday is another birthday.

Ian Dury

#16. Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

Ian Dury

#17. Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener.

Ian Dury

#18. Hit me with your rhythm stick, it's nice to be a lunatic.

Ian Dury