Julian Cope Quotes

#1. The artist is always dancing with death.

Marty Rubin

#2. I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places.

Tim Ferriss

#3. 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.'

Julian Cope

#4. Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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

Julian Cope

#6. 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.

Julian Cope

#7. Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.

Gabrielle Giffords

#8. 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.

Julian Cope

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

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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. The way people see you is the way you really are.

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#13. True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.

Julian Baggini

#14. 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.

Julian Cope

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

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#16. The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me.

Alexander Chee

#17. Down in the national news section, there's an article on a new pill, the 'Valium' they're calling it, 'to help women cope with everyday challenges.' God, I could use about ten of those little pills right now.

Kathryn Stockett

#18. Love is the ultimate state of human being where compassion prevails and kindness rules.

Yogi Bhajan

#19. 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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#20. Every time I see you, I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to fall. I feel uncomfortable every time I see you, and every time we talk, my throat tickles.

Yoon Joon-soo

#21. 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.

Julian Cope

#22. I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

Julian Cope