Ian Brown Quotes

#1. It has been a pleasure to play with all these artists. Pretenders was a real highlight, but also Damon, aka Badly Drawn Boy, Sinead ... Ian Brown ... all of these people I learn from and love to work with.

Andy Rourke

#2. Love resolves. Love. Love's deeper than the hurt.

Ian Brown

#3. I think I'm like The Beatles - I think each one I've done is better than the last one. And hopefully I'll never make a Let It Be.

Ian Brown

#4. If you put your cameras down you might be able to live in the moment. You have a memory there of something you've never lived.

Ian Brown

#5. Knight saved it with his back arm

Ian Brown

#6. What does it feel like to represent a newspaper that used to support Adolf Hitler? And supports the banker Kabbalists that are ruining the world? Did you vote Tory?

Ian Brown

#7. It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.

Adam Brown

#8. A lot of professionals are crackpots.

Jenny Holzer

#9. I'm the only Red in our family! You know my father, my brother, my brother-in-law, my 14-year-old niece and two of my uncles are all City season ticket holders. So I'm gonna say 5-0 to United!

Ian Brown

#10. Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

Ian Anderson

#11. Mistress Agatha Brown, she was Church of England, but she just done gone to the Catholics. And it seems they don't hold with places like 3½, not even when they're decently run.

Ian Fleming

#12. I've parked my solo thing in a lay-by and jumped in another vehicle and I'm in that now.

Ian Brown

#13. If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, does that make you brave? No, I think that makes you stupid. I will never play without the mask again.

Jacques Plante

#14. A baton of light across the bracken redeemed the reputation of the color brown with fiery reds and yellows.

Ian McEwan

#15. Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves.

Oli Anderson

#16. We'll keep writing and if it hits our standards we'll go with it. We're not here to destroy anything. It's as precious to us as it is for someone who's followed us for years.

Ian Brown

#17. But why bother trying to turn a monkey into a goat?

Lisa See

#18. I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.

Ian McLagan

#19. It takes time for people to fall in love with you ... but it's inevitable

Ian Brown

#20. A tale of too many cooks in the defence.

Ian Brown

#21. If you need to be selective about the work at a company, maybe you need to be more selective about the company you work for!

Bruce Outridge

#22. The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot.

Ian Brown

#23. We've got no hate for each other [in the band Stone Roses], and we never have.

Ian Brown

#24. One parody is worth a thousand polemics ...

Jennifer Stone

#25. There's a lot of good rappers in England at the moment. There's a lot of good dance acts. A lot of good, young guitar acts. I think a lot of groups came from that dole culture of the late 80's/early 90's - it's not as easy now. I think there's a dearth of working class bands.

Ian Brown

#26. You'd be sick if you saw my adidas collection ... you would be physically sick if you saw it. I'm not gonna say where it is.

Ian Brown

#27. The money's always been on the table. We could have took that money any time we wanted - every year, two, three times a year we've had offers, all the way down the line.

Ian Brown

#28. If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.

Ian Anderson

#29. You have a gift that can make you rich. Everyone does.

Ian Brown

#30. I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

Ian McKellen

#31. Manchester's got everything except a beach.

Ian Brown

#32. No-one ever votes Tory, do they?

Ian Brown

#33. We're creatures of habit when it comes to mobile contracts and the wires piping high-speed data into our homes. It's a pain to deal with transfers, installations, and customer service interactions, so we shrug and keep paying a premium.

Ian Lamont

#34. A guy called Arthur Brown ... was a big influence of mine ... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.

Bruce Dickinson

#35. England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?

William Blake

#36. And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave?

Veronica Roth

#37. You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.

Earl Scruggs