Best Shane MacGowan quotes

**Wed May 10, 2006 10:09 pm**

Shane was interviewed in a pub garden and he was slagging off walkmans (as they were called) saying they stopped people from communicating with each other "If you're listening to a walkman you can't hear . . . (a bird started singing) . . . that"

**Mon May 15, 2006 10:31 am**

Shane being interviewed about "Fairytale" not becomming a xmas No 1,

" we were beaten to number one by two puffs and a piano"

A wonderful reference to the "pet shop boys" :lol:

Respect

**Thu May 18, 2006 7:58 pm**

moose wrote:Shane being interviewed about "Fairytale" not becomming a xmas No 1,

" we were beaten to number one by two puffs and a piano"

A wonderful reference to the "pet shop boys"

Respect

"Two faggots and a drum machine"

**Fri May 26, 2006 12:44 pm**

I always thought Shane wrote
Its not death we should fear its life....so pass me the bottle"

Can anybody verify this?????????
Cheers
Al

**Fri May 26, 2006 1:13 pm**

"It is not the cough that carries you off, it is the coffin they carry you off in..."

Previous post evoked...

**Fri May 26, 2006 2:41 pm**

MacRua wrote:"It is not the cough that carries you off, it is the coffin they carry you off in..."

That quote's older than him.

**Fri May 26, 2006 3:23 pm**

Suppose so... People used to cough and be carried in coffins for ages...

**Fri May 26, 2006 5:42 pm**

MacRua wrote:Suppose so... People used to cough and be carried in coffins for ages...

Only saying because I heard my mum say it first.

**Fri May 26, 2006 6:31 pm**

Heather wrote:Only saying because I heard my mum say it first.

How can you be so sure she didn't steal it from Shane?

**Fri May 26, 2006 7:41 pm**

Heather wrote:
MacRua wrote:"It is not the cough that carries you off, it is the coffin they carry you off in..."

That quote's older than him.

http://scarstuff.blogspot.com/2006/02/s ... -1970.html
Its a track on here .

I have a very vague recollection that this tongue twister/ poem played a part in my history exam as regards a 18th century major killer decease . But for the life of me can "t remember which one.Possibly some thing to do with Lancashire mill towns

**Sat May 27, 2006 10:13 pm**

Welshie wrote:I always thought Shane wrote
Its not death we should fear its life....so pass me the bottle"

Can anybody verify this?????????
Cheers
Al

I'm quite sure that's not one of Shanes.

**Sat May 27, 2006 10:31 pm**

euchrid wrote:
Welshie wrote:I always thought Shane wrote
Its not death we should fear its life....so pass me the bottle"

Can anybody verify this?????????
Cheers
Al

I'm quite sure that's not one of Shanes.

It was first uttered by Adam after The Fall

**Sun May 28, 2006 8:13 am**

Not a quote by Shane but about him when some twat of a journalist was slaggin him off went something like this
Some people are seven sheets to the wind, others just blow
Mr Philip Chevron off this website, a true classic

**Sun May 28, 2006 5:44 pm**

Shane addressed the crowd at the 9:30 Club on 9 March 2006 about four songs in, with a glorious "Shut Up!"..... I thought that was pretty special because he was speaking to me. I have shut up ever since. Amazing.

**Sun May 28, 2006 10:30 pm**

Eric V wrote:Shane addressed the crowd at the 9:30 Club on 9 March 2006 about four songs in, with a glorious "Shut Up!"..... I thought that was pretty special because he was speaking to me. I have shut up ever since. Amazing.

If you ask him very very politely (in a not-giving-a-fuck-about-the-rules sort of way), Mr C might tell you to stop typing too :p

Best Shane MacGowan quotes

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