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Nicky Wire
17 quotes
“I wanted to ring everyone and tell them I was number one but then I realised I didn’t have any friends.”
Nicky Wire (born 1969) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wire's reaction to If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next becoming UK number one in 1998
“My daughter just delights in telling me that Ed Sheeran beats me all the time. She just keeps saying that if I was as good as Ed Sheeran I'd be happier.”
Nicky Wire (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m not pretending the past was any good — I'm just saying the present is worse.”
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“God definitely created humans as the dregs, we have all the greed and the despicable acts. Humanity, worldwide, is now at its lowest ebb. Depressing, isn’t it, so let’s not get started on THAT.”
Nicky Wire (born 1969) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Smash Hits Magazine, 1993
“I often fantasise about going into the jungle. I’d like to go in there and be as miserable as possible and refuse to do any of the tasks and we’d all starve to death. And everyone would despise me. So on that level I quite fancy it.”
Nicky Wire (born 1969) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Discussing reality TV shows such as I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, 2006
“Throughout the first year of the band I was only drinking Babycham; it’s so un-rock & roll! Then, as we were driving over the Yorkshire Dales or the Lancashire Moors, I just turned into a blubbing heap, I just wanted to go home and see my mum. I still feel like that a lot now, really.”
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“There’s no problem mixing style with socialism - Fidel Castro was stylish!”
Nicky Wire (born 1969) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Uncut Magazine, 2006
“A journalist in one of the Sunday papers called us ‘little trolls’, because we’re Welsh. Well, I’m 6ft 3in and I’m the sexiest rock star in the world.”
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“I could never write something like (Radiohead's) 'I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo'. I'd write something like 'I’m a cricketer, I’m boring, I’m a gardener, I'm a hoovering housewife'.”
Nicky Wire (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The internet is the grandest illusion ever created. It makes people think they’re popular, they have loads of friends, they’re part of a community. And they actually have a voice. They don’t actually realise that like all of us, they’re completely fucked and powerless.”
Nicky Wire (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the biggest corporate lies in history, up there with selling terrible mortgages.”
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“Not that I'd ever want one, and I fucking despise it. But why has he got a knighthood? It's Sir Nick Clegg, Head of Facebook Foreign Affairs. Can you think of a worse sentence at the moment than that?”
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“Someone should build a bypass over this shithole.”
Nicky Wire (born 1969) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During a performance at the 1994 Glastonbury festival.
“It was supposed to be a joke. As I was saying it I thought ‘This is going to be really funny’. Then this deathly silence descended on the place.”
Nicky Wire (born 1969) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reflecting on the Glastonbury controversy in 2007
“Me and Richey can’t write music but we can write lyrics and look pretty tarty.”
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“It seemed a marriage made in heaven really. I found someone who believed in the same ideas as me, and was even worse musically.”
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“I still think they're really relevant and I still think as a kind of physical and internalised hatred and dissection of humanity, it's pretty untouchable.”
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