Jez Williams famous quotes

I've heard that Oasis or Coldplay will sell tickets, but they can't sell records. They sold out Madison Square Garden in three hours. And they can't sell albums. I don't know what's going on.
-- Jez Williams

#Garden #Hours

We wouldn't be so naive to say something like "feel any competition with Coldplay." All we can do is come out and gig, and we have a really good loyal fanbase, people really "get" the band, and that's all we can do.
-- Jez Williams

#People #Competition #Loyal

What we've noticed is that people latch onto our music, and are very, very supportive of it, even almost defensive about it. Quite fanatical, some fans, aren't they? Just like they are in England, once they get a hold of "their" band, they don't want their band to get too big anyways.
-- Jez Williams

#People #Supportive

A lot of Manchester now - it's creating jobs and that's great, but some of the character is getting sucked out. There's good and bad, but our personal perspective is that it's just a shame. You in Chicago protect your buildings, we don't have that. You'll find a good building will get replaced by a horrible looking thing.
-- Jez Williams

#Character #Perspective #Shame

You come out of doing that kind of side of electronic music, you're gonna take that knowledge with you and not ignore it. That'd be ridiculous to spend 10 years on something and not use that as an influence.
-- Jez Williams

#Ridiculous #Kind #Influence

We know how to work certain toys, and if you've got something in your head you know how to get in on tape, even if it's got an abstract sound to it. We are kind of producers as well as a band, so we're a self-contained unit. We can produce our own record as well as write it.
-- Jez Williams

#Writing #Kind #Abstract

I got really passionate about music with early Smiths and Joy Division. And New Order, Sonic Youth, Cramps...kind of right across the board, whatever fell underground. Kraftwerk...it was really mixed. Quite confusing, I suppose, but it just felt good.
-- Jez Williams

#Joy #Confusing #Passionate

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

Were you already here?" he asked. "Yeah." "Didn't you just bring her home from work two hours ago?" "Yeah." Tripp chuckled and shook his head. "Did you even leave?" "No.

In half an hour, I'll know more than you do.

Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.

How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.

For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.