Top 110 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Ashcroft
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I don't believe in a new-age movement; I'm not a hippy.
I don't like being told what to do.
I love sportsmen's spirit, their ability to come back and override negativity. Michael Owen has been written off so many times, but he will always prove the doubters wrong.
I don't want to be responsible for messing up someone. I don't want to be responsible for that, because the things that happened in The Verve, it was heavy stuff. It was real. It wasn't just frivolous nonsense, you know what I mean? There was real people's lives.
People wanted me to become this cliched Keith Richards, Iggy Pop character. I wasn't expected to marry a beautiful wife and have kids.
Some people have a God because they need faith, and that's fair enough.
If you really, truly believe in something, you're on fire, and your tongue rolls at the same pace.
Technology means the kind of music you can make on your own if you've got an imagination is amazing. It's crazy that I can sit with a Mac and a keyboard and a mic and create a symphony.
I've always felt like an outsider in this industry, but that sense of community - that sense of belonging with your fans - it's an amazing feeling, and it's really inspiring.
I want to entertain and inspire.
Hearing 'This Is How It Feels' on the radio was an amazing feeling, like starting again. But I believe that, in the end, my name will be bigger then the Verve because of all those great tunes and the power of what I stand for.
80% of everything I've experienced since the Verve has been depressing.
I'm never happy with any record, never truly been happy.
I think I've learned a lot on the vocal side of things.
The music industry wants safe rock stars, people who are totally homogenised.
People do get out of my way when I'm walking to the shops.
I strongly disagree that you can't have a happy family life and a child as well as rock n' roll.
As a musician, I don't wanna put out political soundbites.
They called me 'Mr. Average' in school.
I'm very interested in Darwinism and how that affects us on a day-to-day level. But I also have a deep interest in theology and the spiritual.
At The Verve's first-ever gig, I said that we were gonna blow this local band off the stage. It was only in the local Wigan paper, and they rang me to ask why I was being so aggressive. I just went, 'Hey man, it's like boxing. I'm just trying to sell a ticket.'
My thing is, I've yet to meet a well person. The spectrum is unbelievably wide, the triggers for depression and manic depression.
Other kids would be playing with their Action Man, and I was questioning life and society.
If Sinatra had packed in his style because there were a load of counterfeit Sinatras about, he would have stopped singing in 1956 or whatever.
We'd lie on the floor, turn the lights out, put two speakers on either side of our ears, and try to blow our minds with music. I know that I want to make a record that does that yet a record that, if it was played on the radio at twelve in the afternoon, the guy making the wall - the guy cleaning the motorway - he's got a melody to hang on.
You look at the Blur comeback, it was so smooth - so smooth - compared to The Verve.
If this world hasn't made you semi-mad, then you ain't living in it.
We never had a stylist, so I always wore my own clothes.
I'm a naturally gifted left-footed footballer.
When you go onstage, the process of getting you from the dressing room to the stage is all about ego.
Music is power.
Don't expect me to be some indie schmindie embarrassed about my success.
If you judge people by what they've done in the past, you're wrong.
I have never had a bad review off a good-looking person.
Ultimately, if someone's paying hard-earned money to see me play live, they don't want a rant about what's happening on the other side of the world. They don't want to know which way they should vote.
I love my cracked eyes.
I've had tons of incredible conversations with people who say they got married or buried relatives to my songs.
Just because something's kinda indie and whatever and only a few people know it, it doesn't give it more authenticity over Rihanna's 'Work' work work.
A classic song is timeless. You'll never outlive a classic song. I'll never put The Beatles 'In My Life' on one day and say, 'That doesnt move me any more.'
There's a track called 'Why Not Nothing' about how the world's turning so conservative and so religious at the same time. I think it's up to the songwriters to give another side to the coin, and my music does that.
I don't ever want to get to the point where I don't think about death! You've got to swim in it, learn from it - embrace it!
Life's about ego. So for someone to talk about my ego, as they are writing their piece about my ego, I'm wondering what they're doing with their ego?
If the way I see the world is mad, then fantastic.
I've never written a 'Revolver' or a 'Pet Sounds.'
With 'Break The Night,' each verse is saying, 'Nothing's going right today; nothing ever does.' It's about that kind of repetition, it's that kind of mantra you can get in your mind when you're depressed or down, when it's become like a hamster on a wheel - it's very difficult to break.
Criticism is beyond your control and is a collective group of people deciding things about you that may or may not be true. Some critics look for more when there's no need to. They have a dotto-dot picture of me they are intent on filling in.
Rock n' roll is like a religion.
I've got a talent, and people enjoy my songs, people love my songs; why stop?
'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the greatest pieces of modern art created by anyone. I'm not blowing my own trumpet here.
I don't think I have enough German blood in me to get into the royal family.
'Bitter Sweet Symphony' is one of the biggest hip-hop records of all time once you actually analyse it.
Obviously, aging has a certain amount of mellowing process because there's certain things you realise you were doing when you were younger that were plain ridiculous, stupid.
The mainstream consumed our culture.
I'm very lucky that I can walk on the stage before anyone in the world. And that's the thing: you've got to be pretty confident to go on after me. You've got to have the artillery, as I call it. And the artillery is your songs.
There's always one character, I think, in every town who's the obsessive who steals money to go and buy records.
Life is about unforgettable and transcendent moments, isn't it? The point of music is to get the moment.
Even if you're not releasing songs, the act of creativity is important. That's the part I love, when you're in the moment. The rest of it I'm not particularly interested in at all.
I'm not one of those freaks who can't see anything past 1977.
I wouldn't trade what Coldplay have achieved for any of my songs.
It doesn't matter how fashion or politics changes; you'll never change a classic song.
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