Julian Cope famous quotes

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.'
-- Julian Cope

#Believe #People #Intellectual

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

#Use #Cliche

To rally every black sheep is my goal.
-- Julian Cope

#Sheep #Goal #Black

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.
-- Julian Cope

#Thinking #Ideas #People

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.
-- Julian Cope

#Guitar #Piano #Choices

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.
-- Julian Cope

#Hate #Energy #Use

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.
-- Julian Cope

#Writing #People

The way people see you is the way you really are.
-- Julian Cope

#People #Way

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.
-- Julian Cope

#Eye #People #Interesting

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.
-- Julian Cope

#Thinking #Rocks #People

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.
-- Julian Cope

#Party #Artist #People

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

#Thinking #Sick #Childhood

Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.
-- Julian Cope

#Panic Attacks #Yeah #Anxious