18 Quotes by Paul Morley


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    It's barely changed since the faceless colour committee originally selected it in 1908 when the first map of the Underground was designed and the Bakerloo conclusively became brown, a very early twentieth-century brown, which brings something of the nineteenth century with it - the colour of Sherlock Holmes's pipe, a Gladstone bag, a grandfather clock.

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    We wanted to be like a group would be in the year 2000, ... a space age group -- computers, masks, mystery, technology. That's kind of the group we were in 1983.

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    was a good mascot for us to use to summarize 20th-century music. You know how most pop groups, they go back about 20 or 30 years for their source material.

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    Everything they said she has to be she's contradicted. She's small and has a tough look, her face is quite crooked and that becomes an advantage because everyday people can identify with her. She cuts across the aloofness and hypocrisy of the fashion world.

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    The corporations have all their marketing tools, but it's so much better to go in and find out what's going on and what people are thinking.

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    I always thought that pop groups were going to be made up in the 21st century. It wouldn't be four musicians, as such. Especially in the online world, with the worlds that are opening up.

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    There's different ways of presenting a pop group to the world. It doesn't have to be the same old poses.

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