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

Ian Dury

#3. Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

Madeleine L'Engle

#4. One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.

Jeremy Piven

#5. There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.

Peter Noone

#6. 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

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

Ian Dury

#8. Blinded alike from sunshine and from rain,
As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again

John Keats

#9. It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#10. If you're not proud of what you do, you're not done.

Frank Sonnenberg

#11. I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

Desmond Tutu

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

Ian Dury

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

Ian Dury

#14. Five-Year," a term given to cash minted before 2023. That was the last year cash was produced without embedded chips that could trace every use of the currency as if it was a debit or credit card.

Gary A. Ballard

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

Ian Dury

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

Ian Dury

#17. Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

Ian Dury

#18. He flipped his hands out to motion her away. Go change clothes six times and stand in front of the mirror. I'll tell you if your jeans make your butt look fat.

Carolyn Brown

#19. I'm a total ignoramus about the technical aspects but I have to say that it's awfully purty now.

Kevin Moffett

#20. I love having other people sing my songs.

Jesse Harris

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

Ian Dury

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

Ian Dury