107 Quotes by John Cooper Clarke


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    Poets are supposed to be underappreciated, don't you know? There is always a strange reaction to those who become successful in their own lifetime, and so I always felt lucky that I made the living I did out of it.

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    Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do that.

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    It was a tedious saying among hippies: if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. I was very much part of the problem.

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    The first time I heard rock'n'roll on a big sound system would have been at a fairground at the seaside. That's a hell of a sensory experience right there.

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