Top 90 Paul Weller Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “It’s just something internal that says, ‘I’ve got to do this now. This is what I’m doing now.’”

— Paul Weller

52. “Being a musician is a noble profession.”

— Paul Weller

53. “I only put an album out every two or three years.”

— Paul Weller

54. “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

55. “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

56. “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

57. “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

58. “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

59. “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

60. “It’s always good to play New York. The Apollo is a great gig. I loved that.”

— Paul Weller

61. “I’ve not had Botox, no.”

— Paul Weller

62. “You do your runway show, and it’s all over the Internet before I see anything on there.”

— Paul Weller

63. “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

64. “If we get through for two minutes only it will be a start!”

— Paul Weller

65. “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

66. “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

67. “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

68. “It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus.”

— Paul Weller

69. “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

70. “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

71. “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

72. “I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous piece.”

— Paul Weller

73. “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

74. “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

75. “I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there’s lots of layers to what I do.”

— Paul Weller

76. “I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it’s instantaneous everywhere.”

— Paul Weller

77. “I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the ’70s and ’80s.”

— Paul Weller

78. “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

79. “I’m very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.”

— Paul Weller

80. “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

81. “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

82. “In all honesty, I don’t know what one song can change.”

— Paul Weller

83. “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

84. “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

85. “It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it’s encouraging.”

— Paul Weller

86. “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

87. “Nothing wrong with pop!”

— Paul Weller

88. “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

89. “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

90. “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

91. “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

92. “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

93. “Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.”

— Paul Weller

94. “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

95. “If you’re into a certain band, you’re into the way they dress.”

— Paul Weller

96. “The ’40s were quite austere and super glamorous.”

— Paul Weller

97. “I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.”

— Paul Weller

98. “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