Top 32 Quotes & Sayings by Tony Wilson
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British journalist Tony Wilson.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I hate English kids rapping - complete crap.
I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old.
I'm going to be the next David Frost.
My public image is none of my business.
You either make money, or you make history.
You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction.
It's hard to describe how bloody awful music was, how desperately bad it was, how our 1960s heroes had become boring and useless. Not only were they bad - they were badly dressed.
I had the virtue of wanting to hang out with people who were more talented than me. I can't write songs, I can't perform, I can't design clubs, but I was an enthusiast. My gift was that I said yes to everybody.
Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.
I am very much an only child, meaning I am self-reliant, egocentric, sociable. I had my mother, father, and an uncle who lived with us, all doting on me.
Factory Records would not have existed and my life would not have been what it was without Joy Division.
In the '80s, we played the Roxy and the Whiskey with our bands.
The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.
Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.
Richard Branson once said: 'Tony's very good at selling bands and he's very good at making television programmes. But he'll never be great at either, until he decides which one he wants to do.' I entirely accept that. That doesn't matter to me very much. I like the irony of the two lives.
Maybe the worst thing is not caring what people think. That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life.
People shouting abuse has happened for a very long time, and I find it kind of amusing and irrelevant.
I don't mind the fact that people hate me. Nobody likes anyone who's been on the telly as long as I have.
There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
We had a heroic attitude to artistic freedom, and we thought normal contracts were a bit vulgar - somehow not punk. But that was the whole point - we weren't a regular record label.
I'm a minor player in my own life story.
I have this problem that I just like to get a reaction from people.
I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.
Even though the hero of emo is Morrissey, the great song of emo is 'Love Will Tear Us Apart.' An emo soundtrack would introduce Joy Division's music to a whole new generation.
Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.
This is Manchester, we do things differently here.
When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.
I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read more.
That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.
Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.
If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.
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