Notable quotables in the music biz (Toronto Sun)
2005 RANT OF THE YEAR
Noel Gallagher of Oasis wins the prize for best quote as he summed up Live 8 to the Sun’s Jane Stevenson:
„But I don’t like the way that somebody suddenly decides that all the bands in England are going to fookin‘ play and everybody jumps to attention.
„No, it’s the general thing that rock stars should be doing something to fookin‘ sort this out.
„The fate of the African continent does not fookin‘ depend on a load of fookin‘ musicians in Hyde Park singing fookin‘ shit songs to kids. And they’re saying they’re fookin‘ raising awareness for it.
„If you’re not aware of it by now, you can be aware of it for the half-hour. But I bet you that 99% of that audience will walk out while they’re still eating McDonald’s on the way home and won’t realize that by actually standing in McDonald’s you’re perpetuating poverty in some way.
„I think, more effective is taking out some of the fookin‘ government leaders in Africa and starting again, really. A crook is a crook right? Saddam Hussein sat on a load of oil, right? Look at (Zimbabwe president Robert) Mugabe, sat on a load of shit. So he gets to perpetuate evil against his people.
„Team America — the American army — should be in Africa, shouldn’t they? All the little puppets going around taking out African leaders. That would be my solution to it. Well, I mean if they really want to do good for the world. That’s what I’d do.
„I don’t believe pop music, or Annie Lennox singing Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) is going to do anybody any favours, apart from Annie Lennox.“
:director: bigmouth strikes again
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