Pete Doherty: Likeness

Pete Doherty is English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

Pete Doherty: 172 quotes4 likes

“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.”

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

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

"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.”

The Sunday Times, May 14, 2006
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…”

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

“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”

"Merrygoround (That Bowery Song)"
Lyrics and poetry