A Quote by Bez

The money all went to the taxman. I'm completely skint. — © Bez
The money all went to the taxman. I'm completely skint.

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George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
I was so skint when I moved down to London and I never had money, ever.
At 17 I was earning money I didn't know how to handle and before I knew it I owed thousands to the taxman.
There have been brilliant satires about the tax bureaucracy before, from the Beatles song ‘The Taxman’ to the film ‘Harry’s War,’ but in some ways Jim Greenfield’s The Taxman Cometh outdoes them all. His tale of a little guy who can’t take it anymore is both compelling and timely, given the tax scandals we read about in Washington almost every day.
To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. Money, money everywhere and still not enough! And then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money. and if you have money, or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money?
Being skint, drunk, paranoid - no, I don't wish that for myself.
When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.
There was a scary two years where it was madness because I was really in trouble with the taxman.
We have co-opted seed funds. You know, Y Combinator, that was completely our money. We have secret handshakes with a whole bunch of people. Very dangerous, because word gets out that so-and-so's money is Sequoia's money, that would not be a good thing.
I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.
I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
I was never completely destitute. I think I borrowed money once off a friend, but I've always been quite careful with my money, having come from not much of it.
Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.
If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job.
Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.
I think, before I had money, I believed that money would solve my problems, that it would give me power and I wouldn't have financial stress anymore, and it would completely change my life. And then, when I had money, it changed a lot of things, but it didn't change the way I felt inside at all.
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