110+ Paul Weller Quotes On Music, World And Something

Paul Weller is an English musician, singer, songwriter and leader of the band The Jam. He has had a long and successful solo career, releasing 11 studio albums and various collaborations. He is known for his mod revival style and his influence on the Britpop movement of the 1990s. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Paul Weller on life, music, love.

Top 10 Paul Weller Quotes

1. Being a musician is a noble profession.
2. Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.
3. I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.
4. No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.
5. Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.
6. I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.
7. You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.
8. Why not go down the pub? A guy once came up to me at a gig and asked me if I had MySpace. I said, 'This is my space, and you're invading it.'
9. People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.
10. I look for that stimulation constantly. I'm looking for inspiration and stimulation. Not bored with what we've done.

Paul Weller Short Quotes

• I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.
• I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
• You do your runway show, and it's all over the Internet before I see anything on there.
• I don't feel old or young, I just am
• The '40s were quite austere and super glamorous.
• I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.
• If we get through for two minutes only it will be a start!
• I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost.
• If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.
• I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s.

Paul Weller Quotes About Life

I suppose it's nice to have some surprise in life and to surprise yourself in life and see what else you can do. — Paul Weller

I'd like to think I've left something in the world. Without in any way trying to be morbid, but life is very short, and I'd like to think I'd leave some body of work that would inspire other musicians long after I've gone. — Paul Weller

I love soul music, that's my real love in life and in whatever shape or form it is. — Paul Weller

I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really. — Paul Weller

There are areas of music that I've never been to before, so that's always nice thing to have in life. That there are other areas you haven't been to. You haven't covered all the ground, and there's plenty more uncharted territory to cover as well. — Paul Weller

Life is a drink and you get drunk when you're young... — Paul Weller

Paul Weller Quotes About Music

There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some sort of drone instrument, and there's always percussion. — Paul Weller

My own personal theory is that all popular music, in whatever form it is, to me, it all comes from Africa. Whether it's filtered through America or whatever - African-American. But I still think there's something in that roots music that's very, very African, and I think that's what unites people. — Paul Weller

There's such a wealth of great music, clothes or whatever. There is so much great stuff out there, that why would you not still be interested if you've grown up in that kind of culture? — Paul Weller

I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with. — Paul Weller

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it. — Paul Weller

I'm definitely obsessed about artists and the type of music and the playing and the tone and all that kind of thing - I'm not obsessed about what the best Beatles album is. I just think if The Beatles are great, they're great. — Paul Weller

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter. — Paul Weller

I saw an interview with Keith Richards. He said, 'How else could a kid in Dartford suddenly connect with and understand what Muddy Waters is singing?' There's a cultural difference, but there's just something in that music that subconsciously or internally you just understand; it just makes sense. — Paul Weller

So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single, not the nurturing of artists and that kind of thing. — Paul Weller

It's important to know all those things, but part of our jobs is to move people along and to make people excited to buy music or buy clothes, and give them enjoyment, I think, too. — Paul Weller

Paul Weller Quotes About Love

The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it. — Paul Weller

I just pretty much love from 1966 to 1972, that's my time. I think everything that needs to be said was said within that time. That's just a subjective thing, as well. — Paul Weller

The way that house music has become so white and so sanitized over the decades and the fact it's still going on, well I think it's sad really, but at the time I really loved it. I loved all the black house music that was coming out of Chicago and New Jersey, which I just thought was really soulful. — Paul Weller

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it. — Paul Weller

When you look at so much of what we all love, there's either soul-based to it, or it's the blues. It's really the beginnings of any kind of music. It really is; it all starts there. Because after that, it's music of the moment. — Paul Weller

It's always good to play New York. The Apollo is a great gig. I loved that. — Paul Weller

The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff. — Paul Weller

Paul Weller Quotes About World

I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere. — Paul Weller

The Beatles changed the world. They certainly changed my world, and many, many other individuals as well. — Paul Weller

In my world [of fashion] there's more things that kind of affect it. There's the retailers we do business with, our own stores, my merchandising team... Everybody has opinions, and so you definitely have to filter through a lot. — Paul Weller

Paul Weller Quotes About Something

Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important. — Paul Weller

I have to do what I'm doing at the time. That's the most important thing. You might lose some people along the way, and you might gain other people on the way, that's just the way it is. But nevertheless, if you're driven by something, there is no argument about it; that's what you have to do. — Paul Weller

The whole nostalgia thing, and just sticking with what you always liked and what you know and not taking a chance on something or expanding. I think especially after a certain age. — Paul Weller

I think the biggest influence for me is when I hear a great piece of music, whatever the style, I'm kind of inspired by that greatness and I'm inspired to try and obtain something that comes close to that greatness. — Paul Weller

It's just something internal that says, 'I've got to do this now. This is what I'm doing now.' — Paul Weller

Paul Weller Quotes About People

The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads. — Paul Weller

In the past we used to come over to see what was going on in London or Paris or Milan or wherever - it's pretty much the same stuff everywhere [now], and people are wearing the same things, because it's all instantaneous with the Internet. — Paul Weller

I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country. — Paul Weller

I don't like to get pigeonholed. I don't like it when people think they have you sewn up. — Paul Weller

If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60. — Paul Weller

There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them. — Paul Weller

People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git. — Paul Weller

I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing. — Paul Weller

I wear jeans and a T-shirt sometimes. I just like clothes - since the first time I can remember, like age ten or eleven; I was just obsessed with music and clothes. Just like a lot of people in England from my generation. — Paul Weller

It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it's encouraging. — Paul Weller

Paul Weller Famous Quotes And Sayings

You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've rewritten the same song; it's inevitable, but I've always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can't stick in your little comfort zone. — Paul Weller

I play out my role, I've even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I'm beaten. — Paul Weller

I think part of what we do is there is a bit of dandy influence, always, or a little sprinkle of it. Not literal Savile Row dandy, but there's a bit of sartorial dandiness in everything that we do - every collection that we do. — Paul Weller

Today, we're even into the whole sweat thing. They'll wear a [suit] jacket like this, but they'll wear it with sweat pants and sneakers. But I do think there is every generation - and it won't be as big as it was when you and I were those ages - but every generation all of a sudden experiences that they want to dress up. — Paul Weller

In the early-'60s, when you look at that period of time - up to the mod time - when everybody was wearing skinnier suits and skinny lapels and skinny ties - that came out of the States, and that was quite cool. — Paul Weller

When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it. — Paul Weller

When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble. — Paul Weller

I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I dont necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset. — Paul Weller

I get bored quickly. I kind of take my hat off to bands who have been around for a long time and still do the same thing, because it's hard to keep a band together for decades. But I couldn't do that. I couldn't play the same songs night after night or just trade on my past glories, because it wouldn't interest me as a person. — Paul Weller

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. — Paul Weller

There's always peripheral things that you like that you don't know, but starting with whatever his British influences are, are some of my favourite artists, and the American things are what I grew up on as well. In the end, for me, it's those foundations of the music business - those things that are a lot of the foundations of what music today is. You can hear a bit of all of those things that we talk about in almost all music today. — Paul Weller

I try to have an open ear, but at the end, it would never change direction to where I think I should go. Because if I listened to everybody else, they're thinking about what's right now or what was the last thing - they're not thinking about what's next. — Paul Weller

Even somebody like The Black Keys or Royal Blood, they all have this original roots base to what they do. — Paul Weller

There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person. — Paul Weller

A lot of young artists and musicians that we work with, you think they're gonna want to come in and buy the rock star-looking leather jacket - whatever it is that you think they're gonna want. They all want a suit. They want a tuxedo jacket, they want a suit. They don't want to look like their dad in it, but they want a suit. — Paul Weller

For me, my entry point, when I was old enough, was the skinhead/suedehead thing, sort of like '70/'71. People didn't have much money - they would save up, or whatever - but everyone always dressed up. You'd go to a dance at the football club on a Thursday night and all of us kids - all of us from maybe like 12 to 16 - were all dressed up. — Paul Weller

It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus. — Paul Weller

The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time. — Paul Weller

If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals. — Paul Weller

There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that. — Paul Weller

I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go? Where can I take this?' From painters to photographers - anything creative in the arts - if you're a true artist, I think you'll always look to do something else. 'Where else can I go with it?' Do you know what I mean? — Paul Weller

I still want to do what I want to do, but we also have to think about some sense of protecting the business that's out there as well. — Paul Weller

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music. — Paul Weller

Our campaigns have always been based on what we consider music icons that transcend generations and they're not of the moment - they continue to evolve. — Paul Weller

I could say that 'Exile On Main Street' was my favourite or whatever, but I'm more about the songs and the artists and the sound that they bring. — Paul Weller

I'm so lucky, I'm just really grateful for what I've got around me - children and my wife and everything else. — Paul Weller

Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with. — Paul Weller

I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough. — Paul Weller

I've not had Botox, no. — Paul Weller

Nothing wrong with pop. — Paul Weller

I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really. — Paul Weller

I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just play the greatest hits, and their audience is happy to hear that as well, and that's fine, but it wouldn't please me. But it doesn't trouble me. — Paul Weller

In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work. — Paul Weller

Young people can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well. They don't feel the need to own it. They certainly don't feel the need to pay for it. I'd have to save up for weeks to buy an album when I was a kid, and that made it even more great for me when I finally got that thing in my hand. — Paul Weller

There's this British elegance that we, at times, have really missed in the States. We've always been more of a sportswear culture. — Paul Weller

If you're in music, you're in music, and if you're in music you just want to keep making records and playing. That's what it's about, isn't it? At least, that's what I always thought it was about, anyway. — Paul Weller

When I'm dead I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. — Paul Weller

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago. — Paul Weller

Worldwide, most people dress more casually these days, don't they? They have done for the last 20 or 30 years, I suppose. So, every place that I go to, the majority of people really wear jeans, trainers, T-shirt - everybody seems to dress more for comfort. Whereas, even in my lifetime, even up to the early-'70s, there was still that thing of dressing up. — Paul Weller

When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little recess type thing, hardly a hallway, really, and I'd sit there writing songs with my guitar. — Paul Weller

It's a global fashion thing; because of the Internet it has gotten really small. It's cluttered, but it's gotten small. — Paul Weller

I've always liked my clothes, even before I could properly afford them. Clothes for me were never a cloak, a cover. They were how I chose to express myself. — Paul Weller

In all honesty, I don't know what one song can change. — Paul Weller

For me, there's always an early-'70s sense. There's always a sprinkle of it - if I do it exactly like that, sometimes it becomes too costume-y or too thought out. But the influences are there, without a doubt, always, because to me, that was the part that I also felt was the most defining of my own personality and my own style, and I also think that it's timeless. You never look wrong. — Paul Weller

You can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well. — Paul Weller

I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action. — Paul Weller

If you take skinny jeans - skinny jeans didn't just happen in the US, they were happening in Japan, they were happening in the UK, they were happening everywhere. Some places a little faster than others. But, if we look at our best sellers in this store, they're the same best sellers that we have in the States. — Paul Weller

I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous piece — Paul Weller

I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a pretty good thing for me. — Paul Weller

Life Lessons by Paul Weller

1. Paul Weller's work demonstrates the importance of staying true to yourself and your artistic vision, no matter how much success or failure you experience.
2. He has shown that it is possible to create meaningful, lasting music by blending different genres and styles.
3. His career has also demonstrated the importance of hard work and dedication to creating and maintaining a successful music career.