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Peter Doherty is an English musician, songwriter, actor, poet, writer and artist. He is best known for being co-frontman of the Libertines, which he formed with Carl Barât in 1997. His other musical projects are indie band Babyshambles and Peter Doherty and the Puta Madres. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. March 1979
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Pete Doherty Quotes

“When she wakes up in the morning
She writes down all her dreams
Reads like the Book of Revelations
Or the Beano or the unabridged Ulysses
Oh, I really wanna know
So tell me, Where does all the money go?
Where does all the money go?
Straight, straight up her nose”

Pete Doherty

"What a Waster"(with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry

Money , Books , Dreams , Reading

“Well, I'll tell you a story but you won't listen
It's about a nightmare steeped in tradition
It's the story of a coked-up pansy
Who spends his nights in flights of fancy

Met two fellas over gin and mixers
They talked for a while, he soon got the picture
One was a souped up Soho mincer
And the other was a pikey with a knowledge of scripture”

Pete Doherty

"La Belle et la Bete"
Lyrics and poetry

Knowledge , Night

“I’m vain because I’m imperfect.”

Pete Doherty

The Sunday Times, May 14, 2006
Miscellaneous

“The story of The Libertines starts for me when it was me, Carl Barât and Steve Bedlow sat on the side of a canal, throwing stones at a bottle and we had a game where whoever hit the bottle first with the stone got to choose the name of the band - I can't even remember who it was that hit the bottle but, yeah, from that night onwards we became The Libertines. We ended up throwing ourselves into eternity, as we called it at the time”

Pete Doherty

On how The Libertines got their name
Definitions and objects

Game , Time , Night

“I think it's woken me up to a few things, and you do become complacent. As well as being anti something, you've got to be pro something. So you're anti racism, so what are you pro? You're pro community. I would put my hand on my heart and I'd attach myself to socialist ideas. Because I believe in society. And it's bollocks that black people have any less worth in society than white people, which is basically what people like the BNP say.”

Pete Doherty

2004, The Socialist Review; on what the Love Music, Hate Racism campaign could achieve today
Music and politics

People , Communication , Idea , Thinking

“Her old man, he don't like blacks or queers
Yet he's proud we beat the Nazis
How queer…”

Pete Doherty

"Arbeit Macht Frei"(with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry

“I realise it’s proved to people that I don’t love them. It’s dawning on me now that if I say I love someone… it’s like lying, really. As long as I’m taking it, the lie continues. I’ve got a lot of proving myself to do.”

Pete Doherty

The Sunday Times, May 14, 2006
Drugs

Love , People , Lie , Lying

“I'd say exercising self-control is very important for a dissolute life. You don't need to control your drug intake to lead a free life. Whether you take no drugs at all or everything you can get your hands on, a free life is separated from that.”

Pete Doherty

NME (New Musical Express), December 15, 2006
Drugs

Life , Exercises

“That’s right, but I’m not sure it’s my place to talk about drugs. I’d rather take them or not take them - but not talk about them.”

Pete Doherty

Metro, August 25, 2006 (When asked if he was trying to stop taking drugs)
Drugs

“Something good has happened to us. We are, dare I say it, a professional unit these days. When people get us in a room together now, they actually treat us like musicians. Before, they would treat us as anything but: pigeon fanciers, candles, dry humpers…”

Pete Doherty

Talking about Babyshambles to Spin Magazine, Autumn 2007
Definitions and objects

People

“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

Who The Fuck is Pete Doherty (2005)
People

People , Feeling

“Don't let the tide of your sorrow
Drown your nights and flood your days”

Pete Doherty

"Don't Be Shy"(with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry

Night

“You should get some sun on your face
We've been sitting like a lord in the bath for days
It's getting like I don't even know you”

Pete Doherty

"Merrygoround (That Bowery Song)"
Lyrics and poetry

Sun

“Now I can deal with all the blood on my shoes,
The holes in my sole,
My spirit is tainted and,
Oh, all my tears are painted”

Pete Doherty

"Lust of the Libertines"
Lyrics and poetry

Shoe , Tear , Painting

“Each man kills the things he loves.”

Pete Doherty

I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.
Definitions and objects

Love , Making love