Pete Doherty Quotes

• The world that surrounded me disgusted me so I chosen to invent one of my own.

  Pete Doherty

  World, Disgusted, Chosen

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• I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things that haven’t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that “intellectual” is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.

  Pete Doherty

  Mean, Thinking, Intellectual

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• If you've lost your faith in love and music, Oh the end won't be long...

  Pete Doherty

  Music, Long, Faith In Love

  "Song: The Good Old Days (Up the Bracket)". October 14, 2002.

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• Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?

  Pete Doherty

  Glasses, Broken, Glitter

  New Musical Express, November 2005.

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• I have a very bad relationship with the future. We don't get on. We just ignore each other.

  Pete Doherty

  Bad Relationship

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• There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.

  Pete Doherty

  Drug, Playing Music, World

  The Guardian Interview, July 2004.

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• It's just about bein' yourself...even when you're on the dole, it's about your leather jacket. Music is the last refuge of the working class, along with football...in fact, gigs and riots are the only things left.

  Pete Doherty

  Football, Leather Jackets, Class

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• I don't really deal with the attention I receive to be honest. I build up a fantasy world around me that I inhabit. I cherry pick elements of literature, music, film, history and art, then weave them together to construct a fantasy reality to live in. It doesn't always work out though, I got evicted from my own fantasy once, which was quite embarrassing.

  Pete Doherty

  Art, Reality, Film History

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• 'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

  Pete Doherty

  Music, Beautiful, Men

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• I’m vain because I’m imperfect.

  Pete Doherty

  Imperfect, Vain

  The Sunday Times, May 14, 2006.

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• The more that you follow me, the more I get lost

  Pete Doherty

  Follow Me, Lost

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• I'm not going to be hardened by these people, to these things, I'm not going to let them destroy my feelings or my emotions.

  Pete Doherty

  People, Feelings, Emotion

  "Who the Fuck is Pete Doherty?". June 6, 2005.

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• Once you realize that what I’m saying is true and comes from the heart, then it’s easy. But if you see it all as a façade and just a presentation of affected emotion, then it’s not so easy, it’ll just confuse you.

  Pete Doherty

  Heart, Emotion, Realizing

  "New Again: Pete Doherty". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2016.

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• When inspiration and emotions are sudden, and you can truly capture something, then, yeah, of course it feels good. But when you’re stunted, and you’re having trouble expressin’ yourself, then obviously it doesn’t. So it’s never constant.

  Pete Doherty

  Inspiration, Feel Good, Emotion

  "New Again: Pete Doherty". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2016.

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• I'm not a suicidal person at all, but on paper it seems that I am. I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways. You always think it's going to be fine, the body will repair itself. There will be another chance. But I'm 33 now. The body won't keep repairing itself. You know when you can flick a coin and catch it on your elbow, and flick it up and catch it on the back of your head? And then you can't even catch it with two hands any more. You realise something is wrong.

  Pete Doherty

  Suicidal, Thinking, Hands

  "Pete Doherty on heroin, life in Paris and his new film". Interview with Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2012.

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• Open your heart. Don't be spiteful.

  Pete Doherty

  Heart, Spiteful, Open Your Heart

  "New Again: Pete Doherty". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2016.

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• I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.

  Pete Doherty

  Falling In Love, Men, Blue

  Metro, August 25, 2006.

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• No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.

  Pete Doherty

  Numbers, People, Cracks

  "New Again: Pete Doherty". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2016.

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• Mix your drinks, and it's best not to cry over spilt milk, but put it back in the bottle.

  Pete Doherty

  Bottles, Milk, Cry

  "New Again: Pete Doherty". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2016.

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• I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.

  Pete Doherty

  Music, Country, Passion

  Metro, August 25, 2006.

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• You want to dance. You want to sing. Yeah, that feeling, of course, is beyond recollection really.

  Pete Doherty

  Feelings, Want, Yeah

  "Pete Doherty: Sex (Check), Trouble (Check), Rock ‘n’ Roll (Hell, yeah!)". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 2005.

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• I love her but I wouldn't marry her if she [Kate Moss] was the last woman on earth.

  Pete Doherty

  Moss, Earth, Lasts

  "Doherty Photographed 'Taking Drugs' in Thailand". Interview with Jess Lea, www.sfgate.com. January 31, 2007.

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• I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.

  Pete Doherty

  Music, Way, Impossible

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• There's a difference between performing in Philadelphia to New York as much as a difference between playing in Luton and playing in San Francisco, y’know what I mean?

  Pete Doherty

  New York, Mean, Differences

  "New Again: Pete Doherty". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2016.

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• I’m not saying that maybe there isn’t a kid out there whose behavior hasn’t been influenced by me in some way. I’m sure there is. But I can only speak for myself, and if you’d asked if my behavior had ever been affected by people I’d admired from afar, like musicians or footballers, that’d be a yes, totally.

  Pete Doherty

  Kids, People, Musician

  "New Again: Pete Doherty". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2016.

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