Julian Cope Quotes

The way people see you is the way you really are.

I signed contracts I didn't think were a good idea but people around me said it was the way forward. It saddens me that I'll never own my first album ever, which sucks.

Im going to become the best-remembered artist of my generation by staying away from the party as often as possible. That way, people will remember me, not because I was great, but because I didnt cause them any later embarrassment.

I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.

To rally every black sheep is my goal.

My mission was always intended to be slightly outside the public eye, because that makes me appear more interesting than I really am. A lot of people don’t realise that merely by staying away, you can create a myth.

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.

Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.

The TV licence people just can't believe we don't have a television. I'm a bolshie git. I shout at them things like, 'I don't need TV, I'm an intellectual.'

Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.