Quotes by Tony Wilson - Page 1

I'm going to be the next David Frost.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Frost
David
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My public image is none of my business.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Public Image
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Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Beautiful
Useless
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I'm a minor player in my own life story.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Life Story
My Own
Player
Stories
Life Story Life Story
Minor
Story
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You either make money, or you make history.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
History
Either
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I hate English kids rapping - complete crap.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Rapping
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This is Manchester, we do things differently here.
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Different
Rock Music
Television
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I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Minors
Years
Minor
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In the '80s, we played the Roxy and the Whiskey with our bands.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Whiskey
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When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Legends
Picks
Print
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I have this problem that I just like to get a reaction from people.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Reaction
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I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Hash
Pieces
Records
Thinking
I Am Think Am
Charge
Factory
Piece
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There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Famous
Homegrown
Locals
Powerful
Local
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Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Band
Chemist
Needs
Special
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If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Awake
Birmingham
States
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You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Completion
Needs
Reality
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People shouting abuse has happened for a very long time, and I find it kind of amusing and irrelevant.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Abuse
Amusing
Irrelevant
Long Time
Shouting
Time Long People
Very Long Time
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Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Religion
Age
Energy
New Age
Masquerading
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Factory Records would not have existed and my life would not have been what it was without Joy Division.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Division
Joy
Joy Division
Records
Life Joy My Life
Existed
Factory
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I don't mind the fact that people hate me. Nobody likes anyone who's been on the telly as long as I have.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Hate Mind Me
Telly
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Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Doe
Enjoy
Jazz
Listening
Musician
Refuge
More
Anyone
Does
Jazz Musicians
Last
Musicians
Than
Themselves
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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.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Fine
Icarus
Should
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Maybe the worst thing is not caring what people think. That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Caring
Not Caring
Life Mother People
Biggest Influence
Worst Thing
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The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Investment
Mean
People
Special
Relationship People Feel
Region
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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.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Egocentric
Only Child
Self Reliant
Sociable
Me I Am Father
Father I Am Me
Uncle
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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.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Division
Hero
Joy
New Generation
Song
Whole
Love Great Music
Apart
Love Music Great
Generation
Great Song
Introduce
Tear
Though
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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.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Bloody
Useless
Heroes
Badly
Describe
Dressed
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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.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Attitude
Contracts
Heroic
Normal
Punk
Vulgar
Bit
Record
Label
Point
Record Label
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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.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Design
Clubs
Virtue
Gift Me People
Enthusiast
Perform
Talented
Hang
Wanting
Yes
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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.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Drug
Gun
Pride
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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.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Irony
Programmes
Selling
Good Great Me
Bands
Entirely
Richard
Tony
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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.
Tony Wilson / Presenter
Knowing
Mother
Thinking
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