Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Shaun Ryder
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I didn't DJ at Liverpool's Ruby Sky nightclub but a couple of newspapers said how great my DJ set was, and how I've straightened up, which is true, and how I was drinking tea. But I wasn't there!
There were some miles-better bands than us. We were conscious that we weren't the best or the smartest, but we certainly knew how to work the press.
Men don't have to grow up like women do. Women are expected to grow up with every year that passes. Men can get away with being kids until they're at least 40 - I did.
My kids that are grown up, in their 20s, they all go to festivals. They have to behave, though. When it comes to things like that it's do as I say, not do as I do.
I know a lot of people in the music business who came from working-class backgrounds and they vote Tory.
Tony Wilson once compared me to WB Yeats. It didn't really mean that much because I didn't have a clue who Yeats was.
I bike ride and swim but I don't exercise 'cos I like it. I do it because I've got a thyroid problem that can balloon my weight up to 20 stone if I stand still for five minutes.
I have discovered vegan ice-cream; that's replaced the whisky.
The values me mam and dad tried to drum into us were no stealing, go to church, go to school - all of which we ignored. We'd fight, we stole, we cheated and we didn't go to school.
I'm from a close-knit Catholic family.
I'm quite happy sat in front of the telly watching everything on Sky, Netflix, Amazon Prime. And the one called Roku. I've got the lot.
I don't have a problem with saying, 'I love you.' I probably said it to the whole of the red-light district in Amsterdam when I was about 21.
I was a pretty straight kid when I was 15 - there was no drunk or drugs.
My brain gets about 10 things going on at once and the wires don't connect. They all go, 'It's the drugs,' and it's not. I have been like this all my life.
When the Happy Mondays started I was like the dad of the band.
Wives and girlfriends really shouldn't be anywhere near the band. Not at all. Anyone who's listening to their girlfriend, they shouldn't be involved. All bands have Yoko Onos, and the Mondays were no exception.
It never bothers me playing huge venues; it's not personal, is it?
When you're young, everything's boring, basically.
I've had a few alien encounters.
I don't really regret anything about my youth.
I don't get involved with the music scene any more. It's just alien to me.
When the Happy Mondays first got famous, I just thought, 'I deserve this, I deserve to sell records.'
My muscles have caved in. I go to bed at night, and next day I've got this pot belly where all my muscles have collapsed; so I look fat, but there's nothing I can do about it.
All my kids grew up around showbiz so they know it's just a job.
When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.
I saw my first UFO in 1978.
The only thing I took to Glastonbury in 1990 was a ton of tin foil!
I never thought I'd die young. Even at the worst moments, I've always thought I was gonna live till I was about 127.
The rest of the band tend to notice things like the door getting opened for the lead singer. And the door shuts on the rest of the band. The lead singer doesn't notice that, but the rest of the band does.
My mam collects everything to do with everything we've ever done. I don't remember us doing Happy Mondays underpants but my old girl reckons she's got a pair.
I got tired of soundchecks. At first it was important. But after a while, there was no point in me doing one.
He is like a bad dog, Bez. We lived together in a flat and if you didn't get up before him, he would get up and he would take your clothes.
I'm not really good with hangovers.
It was cycling that got me off drugs. I'd get on my bike very early in the morning and keep cycling until very late at night, day after day, until it was out of the system.
People always ask if I miss the drugs and the partying. I'm a 58-year-old man - no, I don't!
I'd love to see the Stone Roses do a show but it won't happen.
I actually stop breathing, I think it's 80 times a night, because I have sleep apnea. I've had it since I was a kid.
'Tiger King.' They are absolutely gone with the fairies, they're all absolutely raving out of the box, the lot of them. All those people with animals like tigers, who've got their own zoos in America, and one guy's got something like 2,000 tigers in his back garden. It's absolutely mad.
The Shaun Ryder in the Happy Mondays isn't the real Shaun Ryder. It's a caricature. Always has been.
If I put anything negative in me then it seems to amplify the situation. I have to think positive.
When I was at school you never heard the word 'ADHD.' We didn't even hear 'dyslexic' at school. There was really nothing on offer. It wasn't on the planet as far as we were concerned.
My melons are twisted every bleeding morning at about half past five when I'm up with the little ones!
The problem stems from the ADHD. The nutty behavior. You have got all this energy going and you can't focus on anything. It's like games at school - like football. I couldn't play because I couldn't understand the rules. I couldn't get offside. I just couldn't take in the rules.
Yeah, when I had Covid all I could eat was fruit. Big bags of pears every day.
Education is about remembering stuff and I could never remember anything, so I didn't get an education.
So I'm Labour, although I couldn't vote for Corbyn - he'd have taken too much money off me!
I had my first panic attack at 52 years of age. I'm glad it came when it did. If I'd had one as a young lad I don't think I'd have been able to have a career.
There's all sorts of stories about me. I've stopped listening to them. You've got to laugh at them, really.
We really wanted to be rock 'n' roll, so we became rock 'n' roll, and really good at it, but you pick up loads of layers and you completely forget who you are and what you are.
I've never cared about being indie or cool. I wanted to be on 'Top of the Pops.'
I'm proper schizophrenic - really, really, really shy, but also a bit of a loon.
Kids now, they're not willing to pay for music and movies. The only thing they seem to be willing to pay for is concert tickets.
Good music always sticks around.
When the Mondays split up I looked at the others who'd rather sign on the dole than work with me and Bez, and thought: 'Whoa, you're gonna throw this opportunity away and maybe never work in music again?' There was no way we were doing that.
When you're a young rebellious kid, you think you can beat the system, and when you grow up you realize you can't.
I'm more of a sea lion than a lion.
I think I'm a really good dad.
I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 28 and could only learn that when someone told me to sing it.
It is amazing what humans can put up with.
I've got six kids from three mums.
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