Julian Cope Quotes

• I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.

  Julian Cope

  Hate, Energy, Use

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• 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.

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  Eye, People, Interesting

  "Julian Cope, the hit who became a myth". Interview with Andrew Perry, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 1, 2010.

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• 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.'

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  Believe, People, Intellectual

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• 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

  Thinking, Rocks, People

  "Stone me!". Interview with Jon Savage, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2008.

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• To rally every black sheep is my goal.

  Julian Cope

  Sheep, Goal, Black

  "Stone me!". Interview with Jon Savage, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2008.

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

  Julian Cope

  Use It Or Lose It, Use, Cliche

  "Stone me!". Interview with Jon Savage, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Way Forward, Ideas

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• I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

  Julian Cope

  Guitar, Piano, Choices

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• 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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  Writing, People

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• The way people see you is the way you really are.

  Julian Cope

  People, Way

  "Stone me!". Interview with Jon Savage, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2008.

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• Im 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 didnt cause them any later embarrassment.

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  Party, Artist, People

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

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  Thinking, Sick, Childhood

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• Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.

  Julian Cope

  Panic Attacks, Yeah, Anxious

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