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Paul Weller Inspirational Quotes (67)

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I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
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I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.
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I saw an interview with Keith Richards. He said, 'How else could a kid in Dartford suddenly connect with and understand what Muddy Waters is singing?' There's a cultural difference, but there's just something in that music that subconsciously or internally you just understand it just makes sense.
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Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.
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I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.
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You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've rewritten the same song it's inevitable, but I've always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can't stick in your little comfort zone.
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No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.
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I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just play the greatest hits, and their audience is happy to hear that as well, and that's fine, but it wouldn't please me. But it doesn't trouble me.
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Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.
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I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere.
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I still want to do what I want to do, but we also have to think about some sense of protecting the business that's out there as well.
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I only put an album out every two or three years.
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I love soul music, that's my real love in life and in whatever shape or form it is.
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You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.
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I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.
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I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I dont necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.
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There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some sort of drone instrument, and there's always percussion.
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There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.
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In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.
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When I'm dead I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.
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I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.
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The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.
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I'm definitely obsessed about artists and the type of music and the playing and the tone and all that kind of thing - I'm not obsessed about what the best Beatles album is. I just think if The Beatles are great, they're great.
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I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s.
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