Tony Wilson Quotations

I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

I'm a minor player in my own life story.

Richard Branson once said: 'Tony's very good at selling bands and he's very good at making television programmes. But he'll never be great at either, until he decides which one he wants to do.' I entirely accept that. That doesn't matter to me very much. I like the irony of the two lives.

Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.

The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.

I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old,

So it's kind of like, trust us, we're going to spend all this money, we're going to revolutionize the network and there are going to be great benefits but you're going to have to wait three years before you get them.

I have a lot of confidence in our kids and I think we will be just fine if we play ball like we are supposed to.

Last week (Tony Wilson) was doing it and I had the chance to get two (interceptions) and I dropped them, and I told myself this week I was going to come out and play positive, ... Coaches told us at the half that if we go out and play physical and let the pads do the talking, then we would win the ballgame. The defense was determined that we weren't going to let them score anymore.

Optus are a large business operator and they would probably like to have an association with Telecom NZ for their trans-Tasman business, which they don't have much of,

I think the thing that has concerned the market the most is that we have to wait a long time before we get any real cash flow improvements coming through. You're talking at least fiscal 2008, probably 2009 or even 2010,

We get a lot of really neat toys,

Tyler came up to me right before that game and told me that he couldn't go. Ethan was next in line to pitch and he did a good job filling in.

This scene didn't actually make it to the final cut. I'm sure it'll be on the DVD.

We are trying to put our lives back together.

Even though we got down, I felt that we were seeing their pitcher really good and if our kids were patient, that we would have a good chance to get back in it. And we did.

The telecommunications sector is highly dependent upon the regulatory environment and technological change, to the extent that barriers to entry and level of competition could change substantially with change on either of these fronts.

Some people who have been coming for years may be upset that it's not going to be there. But some would like newer facilities, and some would like to buy a condo there.

The money was easier to get last year.

It's not your everyday job, ... Anytime you get to blow stuff up on a daily basis, it's a lot of fun.

It helps me in my real games by playing the Xbox or the PS2. For instance, when I played some quarterback, I could kind of see the pressure you can put on a defense when you roll out and you run or you throw in the game. You see how the defense has to play that.

If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.

When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.

That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.

I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read more.

Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.

Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

This is Manchester, we do things differently here