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Tony Wilson Quotes
Tony Wilson
British
Journalist
Born:
Feb 20
,
1950
Died:
Aug 10
,
2007
Celebrity
Life
Me
Mother
People
You
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There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.
Tony Wilson
Local
Powerful
Celebrity
Quite
Famous
Homegrown
Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.
Tony Wilson
Good
Needs
Chemistry
Band
Own
Every
Chemist
Very
Special
I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.
Tony Wilson
Think
Hash
Charge
Records
Factory
Piece
Am
I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old.
Tony Wilson
Old
Minor
Since
Been
Years
Celebrity
The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.
Tony Wilson
Relationship
You
People
Investment
Feel
Between
Celebrity
Region
Regional
Means
Special
I am very much an only child, meaning I am self-reliant, egocentric, sociable. I had my mother, father, and an uncle who lived with us, all doting on me.
Tony Wilson
Me
Mother
Father
Uncle
Only
Only Child
Had
Am
Self-Reliant
Very
Child
Egocentric
Sociable
Meaning
Us
Much
Who
Lived
I'm going to be the next David Frost.
Tony Wilson
David
Going
Frost
Next
It's hard to describe how bloody awful music was, how desperately bad it was, how our 1960s heroes had become boring and useless. Not only were they bad - they were badly dressed.
Tony Wilson
Music
Heroes
Become
Desperately
Our
Bad
Boring
Dressed
Only
Had
Badly
How
Were
Bloody
Hard
Useless
Describe
Awful
Factory Records would not have existed and my life would not have been what it was without Joy Division.
Tony Wilson
Life
Joy
My Life
Would
Records
Factory
Division
Joy Division
Without
Been
Existed
We had a heroic attitude to artistic freedom, and we thought normal contracts were a bit vulgar - somehow not punk. But that was the whole point - we weren't a regular record label.
Tony Wilson
Attitude
Freedom
Thought
Punk
Heroic
Bit
Record
Record Label
Somehow
Point
Had
Vulgar
Were
Normal
Label
Contracts
Artistic
Regular
Whole
Even though the hero of emo is Morrissey, the great song of emo is 'Love Will Tear Us Apart.' An emo soundtrack would introduce Joy Division's music to a whole new generation.
Tony Wilson
Love
Music
Great
Generation
Song
Joy
Hero
Will
Though
Introduce
Would
Division
Great Song
New
New Generation
Soundtrack
Apart
Us
Whole
Even
Tear
I don't mind the fact that people hate me. Nobody likes anyone who's been on the telly as long as I have.
Tony Wilson
Me
Hate
People
Mind
Long
Telly
Fact
Nobody
Likes
Been
Anyone
You either make money, or you make history.
Tony Wilson
History
You
Money
Make
Either
You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction.
Tony Wilson
Needs
You
Reality
Completion
Someone
Know
Until
Makes
Fiction
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