QUOTES by John Cooper Clarke
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It was a tedious saying among hippies: if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. I was very much part of the problem.
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Somebody up there likes me. It ain't like I've followed a well trodden trajectory.
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I'm a great reader of credits; I never leave the cinema before they finish.
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I'm not giving away sartorial secrets but the trousers I wear cost 19 quid.
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If I'd have known how much fun fatherhood would be, I would have started way earlier than 45.
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Literally' - I'm not having it; people can't go around saying 'literally.' Otherwise, what's literal? There's not another word for literally: if it isn't figurative or metaphorical, what is it? It's literal: there's no substitute.
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A much underrated garment, the jegging: they never need ironing and they hold their colour.
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They're very different things, a poem and a song, you wouldn't think they would be, but they are.
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Poets are supposed to be underappreciated, don't you know? There is always a strange reaction to those who become successful in their own lifetime, and so I always felt lucky that I made the living I did out of it.
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There've been lots of positive changes in the city since I worked at Salford Tech in the seventies, and I'm pleased to be known as Salford's Bard and to have helped put it on the map.
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The first time I heard rock'n'roll on a big sound system would have been at a fairground at the seaside. That's a hell of a sensory experience right there.
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Where I grew up, the one unmistakable sign of homosexuality was to betray some interest in your appearance.
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I was too old to be a punk rocker. I was a mod, that's really the only youth tribe I ever belonged to - and even then, not for very long.
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I got to play The Vortex in London with the Buzzcocks, the Fall, me and Johnny Thunders And The Heartbreakers. That was a serious Manchester night.
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There are only three things that stop me sleeping: hunger, the odd bad dream and cramp in the arches of my feet - it's crippling, as if somebody's trying to tie your foot in a reef knot.
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When the punk rock thing happened, I thought, 'Right, I have one chance here to be seen as part of some wider social phenomenon.'
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I'm not fond of crowds. I'm no jittery neurotic, but I don't really want to be surrounded by a lot of people if I have a choice.
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I enjoy gigging in industrial towns. It seems to be where I go down the best. Somewhere where they have a history of manufacturing, they're my favourite places to play.
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I love Charles Baudelaire. Him and Shakespeare are the only people I think are better than me.
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Find a poet whose style you like, emulate that style, then deal with things that you know about - don't waste your time looking for your own style.' I wish I could remember who told me that, because I'd like to congraulate him. I've emulated all the old guys - Tennyson, Alexander Pope.
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I ain't got a credit card, a mobile phone or a computer. Call me sentimental. I think that's a whole world of trouble I ain't got no business setting foot in. And you know what? It feels good.
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If there's a gene, I got it from my ma. Her writing has this effortless quality.
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There is a certain sentimental vibe in my home town of Manchester, which you would sort of expect.
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Not everyone is prepared for fame, not even at the level I got it. One minute you're just a face in the crowd, next minute everyone wants a piece of you.
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I write with pen and paper. I don't have a mobile or computer, because I know how great they are. If I did, I'd never leave the house - you'd find me in six months, dead under a pile of pizza boxes.
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I hate chickpeas. I like hummus but I ate that before I realised it was made out of chickpeas.
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Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do that.
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If you don't like The Ramones, you don't like rock 'n'roll. They're like The Beach Boys without the sea.
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You know how the Marvel Comics superheroes formed themselves into the Justice League of America - Batman, Flash and the rest. Why did Superman join? He never needed any help.
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My look was based on the Madison Avenue guy who's just lost his job. Ivy League suit a bit scuzzed up, an outgrown layer cut and five o'clock shadow.
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Well, I've obviously been a great source of inspiration to the academic population of Salford! They're citing me as a major contribution to their upward trajectory!
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The greatest threat to any artist is surrounding themselves with people who love everything they do.
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To make the hips the focal point of a pair of trousers is, to me, a fashion mistake.
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