Top Ian Astbury Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Ian Astbury Biography

Ian Robert Astbury (born 14 May 1962) is an English singer and songwriter. He is best known as a founding member and the lead vocalist for the rock band The Cult.

Read about Ian Astbury in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Ian Astbury Quotes

I don't objectify myself. I hate looking at pictures of myself, they're usually awful.

Hate, Awful, I Hate, Looking, Usually

I write all the time. The wonderful thing about having a cell phone is that if I get an idea, I knock it out and it's in my phone and I can transfer it to my computer and go into the studio and bring it up.

Bring, Cells, Phones, Studio, Thing, Writing

Hoodies are definitely street wear, no doubt. It's amazing how hoodies have become such an important staple in people's wardrobes.

People, Doubt, Important, Definitely, Wardrobes

Hollywood has this incredible ability to make a lot of noise.

Hollywood, Noise, Incredibles, Ability, Incredible

If you want to go put on a bathrobe and go walk down the street, excellent. I think it's more about trying to get an individual style than trying to get a uniform look.

Bathrobe, Individual, Style, Thinking, Trying

Peace on earth and good will toward men - that is something we need to work on. Like Nelson Mandela, we should learn from him.

Men, Needs, Earth, Mandela, Toward, Work

You come out of a working-class environment, you know, working-class kids always put them themselves together because it's one of the only things they had. You had control of your image.

Class, Come, Environment, Kids, Know, Together

When you look at men's fashion magazines, you see a lot of well-groomed guys in suits, but very rarely do you see a lot of guys in drop-crotch and hoods with high-tops. It's coming, though, because guys in suits and short hair are beginning to look like they're from another time.

Fashion, Men, Hair, Coming, Rarely, Like

I like the idea of getting to dress up, like to do a Barry Lyndon or something about the Napoleonic period, the grand army retreating from Moscow. I understand that there's a craft to acting and a lot of people work hard at it. I just know that music is my first love. I love music, I love film, and I love clothes.

Acting, Army, First Love, Hard Work, Retreating

I admire Chris Martin. Coldplay have made some wonderful records for the genre they're involved in, but I would consider them to be more of a pop act. The music is much more cerebral than it is animalistic.

Involved, Made, Martin, Records, Wonderful

We never considered ourselves part of the goth thing.

Considered, Goth, Part, Thing

That's a real sign of the times - can you imagine Nick Cave wearing a hoodie? He may not wear one, but he definitely sells them.

Caves, Hoodie, May, Real, Sells, Times

There's always music sitting around, but when you're cultivating music, the idea of getting into a studio and compressing it to get something out on time can be really good.

Compressing, Good, Ideas, Music, Sitting, Studios

I wasn't pursuing a musical career or anything. It just happened and then it was there.

Career, Careers, Happened, Musical, Pursuing

You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.

Paid, Pretending, Venerated, Worshipped

Usually when I see Matthew [McConaughey] at a show, he'll be down in front with his shirt off with two beers just going mental, lit up and having an amazing time.

Beer, Lit, Shirts, Show, Two, Usually

Occasionally I like a really good pair of shoes. A pair of leather shoes from Gieves & Hawkes in England, Buckshot Brogue, they look really sick.

Brogue, Hawkes, Looks, Shoes, Sick

What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel.

Spiritual, Artist, Rocks, Somebody, Blues

I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!"

Writing, Conversation, Said, Reznor, Write

I think the thing that would interest me would be to appear in a period piece where you'd get to dress in an elaborate costume and say nothing but just look fabulous and have a fancy role.

Thinking, Dresses, Would Be, Period, Say, Interest

››

Ian Astbury Biography

Contact Us

About us