Favourite Richey quote?

[Slideling]

In celebration of his untimely 'death':

"Rim-bored. Rim-bough. How do you say it?"

"Rimbaud", I say, in French.

"I insist he's called Rim-bough. Sounds better than Rambo. Like Americans always say Von Gogh 'Von Go',"

That other self-mutilating asylum-dwelling artist...

"And make the 'Go' go on forever: 'G-o-o-o-o-o'. It's Van Goff to me. I know it's wrong but I don't care. One thing I am f***ed off about, being misrepresented, is I don't think people believe I read books. I think they don't even - it's all they all the time isn't it? I don't know who 'they' are - but they think the quotes just come with the sleeve, and I don't even choose them. I am not stupid. I might come across as stupid. That's nothing to do with academic qualifications. I think there's a difference between intelligence and knowledge."

"When I did the NME Student Guide last year, I said that education is really important, and Ted Kessler goes, 'Yawn, that's not very rock 'n' roll.' But I'm not embarrassed by things like that; I think it's important that people read, take the time to learn. It might not be rock 'n' roll, but it's important."

"I would like to be able to write 'i'm feeling supersonic, give me gin and tonic', but I just can't. I think that's a brilliant lyric, but I haven't felt supersonic since I was about ten years old."

[Slideling]

Another one. I just think it's great:
"I think there's something that you just feel is missing from your life. I think it's very difficult to trust people, very difficult to find any real emotion. I mean my Father is really, really happy and his standard of living when he was my age was nothing compared to mine and yet I sit in my house and I moan and complain and he just doesn't understand. I dunno why, but it's just the way our generation is, I suppose."

There's another one I've just thought of where he talks about how he'd never stoop down to someone's level if they punched him. I can't remember how it goes exactly but I do remember thinking that was a superb thing to say.

[cherrybomb]

That line about shouting 'Jeremy' at a Levellers gig, hilarious and so true!

[Slideling]

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[Mr Inconspicuous]

Originally Posted by cherrybomb

That line about shouting 'Jeremy' at a Levellers gig, hilarious and so true!

But wasn't that Wire-not sure...
My minds gone blank, I'll probably wait for the thread to accumulate, hopefully it'll jog my mind...

[Last Exit]

Originally Posted by Mr Inconspicuous

But wasn't that Wire-not sure...
My minds gone blank, I'll probably wait for the thread to accumulate, hopefully it'll jog my mind...

"You could go to any Levellers concert and stand in the middle and shout "Jeremy!", and 75% of the audience would turn round." - Richey Edwards

It's my favourite too.

[Slideling]

Right now it is:
Interviewer: "Here on the road now with the band, I imagine if you do have a potential drink or drugs problem, it's the hardest place to be. How do you cope now?"

Richey: "No, like I say, that's easy. I know what happens if I drink, I know what happens if I use a stimulant that I don't wanna go back to... [pause] the last thing I want is to end up like somebody like Shane MacGowan, you know. I've seen him, I've seen him around, I think he was a fantastic lyricist when he started off and I hate the kind of grudging respect people give him now. When I see Shane onstage, sometimes when he can't even sing any more and he's falling over, and they're talking about the genius of the man and I find that very very patronising. It's just like watching somebody die very slowly. And that upsets me, because I think he was a godlike lyricist and I don't think that's there any more really, and I don't find that enjoyable. And I don't find the thought of being like that myself very enjoyable."

[Nabby]

I dunno if anyone's mentioned it but i found it ages ago...im sure it was a richey quote, it was about buying things and that they were all just things and nothing more.

It finished along the lines of "i just have a new cd player thats all" or something like that...sorta like how being in a band hasn't changed his life, he's just replaced stuff he had with better versions, nothing actually new.

Well thats all I can remember, but it might not be a richey quote - anyways I liked it and it annoys me that i cant remember it