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24-11-2008, 20:05
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Favourite Richey quote?
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." 
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24-11-2008, 20:24
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"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."
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#3
24-11-2008, 20:27
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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."
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24-11-2008, 20:35
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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.
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24-11-2008, 20:36
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That line about shouting 'Jeremy' at a Levellers gig, hilarious and so true!
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24-11-2008, 20:39
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24-11-2008, 21:55
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"A dictionary means nothing unless you listen to words"
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"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more," - Byron 'I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying, And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.' (from Sea Fever - John Masefield) "Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all" - Emily Dickinson
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#9
24-11-2008, 21:58
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Never heard it! Quite philosophic, that.
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#10
24-11-2008, 22:03
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From his last TV interview, one of my favourite quotes ever (because it sums me up!):
"I think maybe I think too much."
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24-11-2008, 22:07
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Some ramble along the lines of:
"When we were young the music press was the most important thing we'd ever read and every week we'd rush out and buy the bands they recommended and we came back home and put the records on and.... they'd be drab grey little insignificant pieces of worthless vinyl ..... which never changed our lives at all... so their judgement doesn't really matter"haha, what a great answer to the question: 'do you care that the press thinks you're shit?' presumably!
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#14
24-11-2008, 22:08
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Quote:
Summed it up for me too.
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24-11-2008, 22:11
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"We get loads of girls at our gigs and we get criticized for that because people think that's too poppy: 'Ooh, you've got girl fans,' so we can't possibly be serious. That is sooo patronizing because these people are saying that girls aren't real fans, like they can't possibly like or understand the music and they're not going to have fifteen pints of lager, have a big mosh down the front and have a curry on the way home. And they should be home reading Jackie and thinking about blokes. It's crap! In terms of sensitivity and intelligence, girls understand so much more than men. How they can condemn 50% of the population of the entire world is completely beyond me."
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